Django equivalent of PHP's form value array/associative array

Question

In PHP, I would do this to get name as an array.

<input type"text" name="name[]" /> <input type"text" name="name[]" /> 

Or if I wanted to get name as an associative array:

<input type"text" name="name[first]" /> <input type"text" name="name[last]" /> 

What is the Django equivalent for such things?

Answer 1

Check out the QueryDict documentation, particularly the usage of QueryDict.getlist(key).

Since request.POST and request.GET in the view are instances of QueryDict, you could do this:

<form action='/my/path/' method='POST'> <input type='text' name='hi' value='heya1'> <input type='text' name='hi' value='heya2'> <input type='submit' value='Go'> </form> 

Then something like this:

def mypath(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         greetings = request.POST.getlist('hi') # will be ['heya1','heya2']