Need a simple working ajax example for django forms

Question

Basically I need something similar to http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax_get_post.asp done in django. I've downloaded the samples and tested it locally with a localhost + php and it works out fine but I can't seem to get it to work in django no matter how simple the example is. Here's basically what I've done based on the example from the link above with slight modification

the javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#my_form").submit(function(){
    $.post("",
    {name:"Donald Duck",
     city:"Duckburg"},
    function(data,status){
      alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
    })
    .fail(function() { alert("error"); });
    return false;
  });
});
</script>

the urls:

url(r'^ajax/$', views.ajax_test, name="ajax"),

the views:

def ajax_test(request):
    if request.method == 'POST' and request.is_ajax():
        name = request.POST['name']
        city = request.POST['city']
        message = name + ' lives in ' + city

        return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'message': message})) #tried without the json. Doesn't work either

    return render(request, 'books/ajaxTest.html')

the html:

<form id="my_form" action="" method="post" {% if form.is_multipart %}enctype="multipart/form-data"{% endif %}>{% csrf_token %}
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

The form is suppose to include a django form but since I can't even get the basics to work, that would be kinda pointless. Someone mentioned about the csrf_token tag but removing that doesn't solve the problem either. The output of the above example basically just yields the alert('error') and nothing else. I've been through so many examples but I can't even get the most basic ones to work

Answer 1

OK..thx for your comments..I got it all sorted out..basically I just missed out on the {% csrf_token %} and csrfmiddlewaretoken:'{{ csrf_token }}'..just for the benefit of those who might be reading this..the new codes will look something like this

the javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){

  $("#my_form").submit(function(){
    $.post("",
    {name:"Donald Duck",
     city:"Duckburg",
     csrfmiddlewaretoken:'{{ csrf_token }}'
     },
    function(data,status){
      alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
    })
    .fail(function(xhr) {
        console.log("Error: " + xhr.statusText);
        alert("Error: " + xhr.statusText);
    });
    return false;
  });

});
</script>

the html:

<form id="my_form" action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>