yes, multiple submit buttons can include in the html form. One simple example is given below.
Let's learn the steps of performing multiple actions with multiple buttons in a single HTML form: Create a form with method 'post' and set the value of the action attribute to a default URL where you want to send the form data. Create the input fields inside the as per your concern. Create a button with type submit.
Having multiple submit buttons and handling them through PHP is just a matter of checking the the name of the button with the corresponding value of the button using conditional statements. In this article I'll use both elseif ladder and switch case statement in PHP to handle multiple submit buttons in a form.
Processing form data in PHP is significantly simpler than most other Web programming languages. This simplicity and ease of use makes it possible to do some fairly complex things with forms, including handling multiple submit buttons in the same form.
Eg:
if 'newsletter_sub' in request.POST:
# do subscribe
elif 'newsletter_unsub' in request.POST:
# do unsubscribe
You can use self.data
in the clean_email
method to access the POST data before validation. It should contain a key called newsletter_sub
or newsletter_unsub
depending on which button was pressed.
# in the context of a django.forms form
def clean(self):
if 'newsletter_sub' in self.data:
# do subscribe
elif 'newsletter_unsub' in self.data:
# do unsubscribe
You can also do like this,
<form method='POST'>
{{form1.as_p}}
<button type="submit" name="btnform1">Save Changes</button>
</form>
<form method='POST'>
{{form2.as_p}}
<button type="submit" name="btnform2">Save Changes</button>
</form>
CODE
if request.method=='POST' and 'btnform1' in request.POST:
do something...
if request.method=='POST' and 'btnform2' in request.POST:
do something...
one url to the same view! like so!
urls.py
url(r'^$', views.landing.as_view(), name = 'landing'),
views.py
class landing(View):
template_name = '/home.html'
form_class1 = forms.pynamehere1
form_class2 = forms.pynamehere2
def get(self, request):
form1 = self.form_class1(None)
form2 = self.form_class2(None)
return render(request, self.template_name, { 'register':form1, 'login':form2,})
def post(self, request):
if request.method=='POST' and 'htmlsubmitbutton1' in request.POST:
## do what ever you want to do for first function ####
if request.method=='POST' and 'htmlsubmitbutton2' in request.POST:
## do what ever you want to do for second function ####
## return def post###
return render(request, self.template_name, {'form':form,})
/home.html
<!-- #### form 1 #### -->
<form action="" method="POST" >
{% csrf_token %}
{{ register.as_p }}
<button type="submit" name="htmlsubmitbutton1">Login</button>
</form>
<!--#### form 2 #### -->
<form action="" method="POST" >
{% csrf_token %}
{{ login.as_p }}
<button type="submit" name="htmlsubmitbutton2">Login</button>
</form>
It's an old question now, nevertheless I had the same issue and found a solution that works for me: I wrote MultiRedirectMixin.
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
class MultiRedirectMixin(object):
"""
A mixin that supports submit-specific success redirection.
Either specify one success_url, or provide dict with names of
submit actions given in template as keys
Example:
In template:
<input type="submit" name="create_new" value="Create"/>
<input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete"/>
View:
MyMultiSubmitView(MultiRedirectMixin, forms.FormView):
success_urls = {"create_new": reverse_lazy('create'),
"delete": reverse_lazy('delete')}
"""
success_urls = {}
def form_valid(self, form):
""" Form is valid: Pick the url and redirect.
"""
for name in self.success_urls:
if name in form.data:
self.success_url = self.success_urls[name]
break
return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())
def get_success_url(self):
"""
Returns the supplied success URL.
"""
if self.success_url:
# Forcing possible reverse_lazy evaluation
url = force_text(self.success_url)
else:
raise ImproperlyConfigured(
_("No URL to redirect to. Provide a success_url."))
return url
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With