django - collecting data from a HTML <select>

Question

I've seen a couple of documents on how to collect the data from a HTML statement in Django but none of them were very clear to me. Does anybody have a real working example to share?

In my case I have something like this in my template file:

<select title="my_options">
   <option value="1">Select value 1</option>
   <option value="2">Select value 2</option>
</select>

What goes in the views.py in order to collect the selected value? Thank you!

Answer 1

If it's a GET request, request.GET['my_options']. If it's a POST, then request.POST['my_options']. This will be a string, either "1" or "2" (or "<script>alert('I hacked you!')</script>")

Either way, it's probably better to use the Django forms framework to save you the hassle of writing the HTML, and sanitizing the returned values.