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When I open the html file it displays as expected and when I enter data in the text box and submit, It redirects me to localhost/myapp/output/ but why is the data I enter in the text box not submitted for example like localhost/myapp/output/data_I_submitted
My basic html file:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>db app</title>
</head>
<body>
{% csrf_token %}
<form action="output/" method="post" name="Input">
Data : <input type="text" name="text">
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
In my app.urls file:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$',views.index),
url(r'^output/(?P<text>\w+)/$',views.return_data)
)
Finally the view:
def return_data(request,text):
return HttpResponse('entered text ' + text)
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If your goal is only getting the text on the form:
change your view to
def return_data(request):
return HttpResponse('entered text:' + request.POST['text'])
edit your urls
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', views.index),
url(r'^output/$', views.return_data)
)
and your template
<form action="output/" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
...
</form>
you'd better review data submitting in forms. with two methods you can submit forms data with your request to the forms action attribute:
GET: like http://www.google.com/?q=keyword+to+search you can access the "keyword+to+search" by:
request.GET['q']
#or better is:
request.GET.get('q', None)
the text arguement is not passed to url pattern. so not accessible in this way
POST: in this method the data is not in request url. so to access the forms data submittin by POST method try this
request.POST['text'] (
#or better is:
request.POST.get('text', None)
but it is highly recommended to use Django forms instead of direct accessing from request.POST or request.GET
so check this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/
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