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New to Django and I have exhausted every forum and tutorial I can and I am still having problems getting my form data to the database. I have a simple model that consists of a name and an email field that I will eventually reference in the program. I can load different pages after clicking submit, but my data will not post to the database. I have tried everything I can think of, so my code is probably jacked at this point, but in the current iteration this is what I have:
#models.py
from django.db import models
from django.forms import ModelForm
class Patron(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
email = models.EmailField(max_length=75)
def _unicode_(self):
return self.name
class PatronForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Patron
#view.py
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404
from patrons.models import Patron
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.core.context_processors import csrf
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.forms import ModelForm
def index(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
post = request.POST
name = post['name']
email = post['email']
f = PatronForm(request.Post)
new_patron = f.save()
return render_to_response('patrons/index.html',
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
#html
<body>
<h1>/Picture Taker/</h1>
<form aciton="." name="patron" method="post" >
{% csrf_token %}
<label>
<div>name</div> <input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="{{name}}">
</label>
<label>
<div>email</div> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="{{email}}">
</label>
<div class="error">{{error}}</div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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All of
post = request.POST
name = post['name']
email = post['email']
f = PatronForm(request.Post)
new_patron = f.save()
can be re-written as (note the case of request.POST):
f = PatronForm(request.POST)
new_patron = f.save()
but you should be checking for errors in the form before saving, so:
f = PatronForm(request.POST)
if f.is_valid():
new_patron = f.save()
You also have a typo in your form tag, it should be "action", not "aciton". The {{ error }} you have in your template doesn't refer to anything present in your view. While debugging, it might be helpful to let the form render itself, like:
{{ form.as_p }}
so you can see any errors in the form submission.
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