Django form multiple choice

Question

I am a newbie in Django and I would really appreciate it if you could offer me some guidance. I am trying to create a form that allows a user to tick one or more options. I understood that I must use MultipleChoiceField field with a CheckboxSelectMultiple widget but the Django documentation doesn't offer an example on this topic. I would be grateful if you could offer me an example and explain how do I handle the results. For example if I have a form with the options a b c d, and the user ticks c and d. Also how do I specify the choices(I don't want to use a db, a list of strings is what I have in mind)? Thanks a lot

Answer 1

forms.py

class SomeForm(forms.Form):     CHOICES = (('a','a'),                ('b','b'),                ('c','c'),                ('d','d'),)     picked = forms.MultipleChoiceField(choices=CHOICES, widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple()) 

views.py

def some_view(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         form = SomeForm(request.POST)         if form.is_valid():             picked = form.cleaned_data.get('picked')             # do something with your results     else:         form = SomeForm      return render_to_response('some_template.html', {'form':form },         context_instance=RequestContext(request)) 

some_template.html

<form method='post'>     {{ form.as_p }}     <input type='submit' value='submit'> </form> 

results:

explanation:

choices:

The first element in each tuple is the actual value to be stored. The second element is the human-readable name for the option.

getting selected boxes:

form.cleaned_data.get('picked') will result in a list of the 'actual values'. For example, if I replaced the # do something with your results with print picked you see:

[u'a', u'c'] 

in your console

Answer 2

hope this helps :D

from django import forms   class Test(forms.Form):     OPTIONS = (         ("a", "A"),         ("b", "B"),         )     name = forms.MultipleChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,                                          choices=OPTIONS)