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sugarmuff
sugarmuff

Reputation: 435

Django how to save model in view

I'm new to Django. I'm having an issue where I can't save my model in the views.py. The concept is to have an input field where a user can type in a name, then using request.POST.get('attribute_name') I can save my model, but it's not working. When I print a list of all the objects in that model there's nothing there, even though I don't get an error message during all of this.

template:

<form id="save_form" method="post" action="{% url 'project_view.views.projectz_save' %}">
{% csrf_token %}
<table>
<tr>
    <td>Project Name</td>
    <td><input name="projectz_name"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
</form>

views.py:

def projectz_save(request):
try: 
    p = Project(name=request.POST.get('projectz_name'))
    p.save()
    return redirect('http://www.google.com/')
except:
    return redirect('http://www.google.com/')

app urls:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
url(r'^$', views.register, name='register'),
url(r'^$', views.projectz_save, name='project_save'),

)

site urls:

urlpatterns = patterns('',

url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^project_view/', include('project_view.urls')),

I even put in some silly redirect code to google.com just to see if the views.py was even executing, but it's not working, though like I said there are no error messages, the page just refreshes. I'm sure I'm doing wrong that's easy to fix, but I'm a noobie. :D

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6005

Answers (1)

Paulo Bu
Paulo Bu

Reputation: 29794

Ok I think maybe I spotted the problem. The view is not executing because you have defined three urls with the exact regex in your project urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
url(r'^$', views.register, name='register'),
url(r'^$', views.projectz_save, name='project_save'),
)

Django match it's urls by iterating over the patterns in the way they appeared so in that file all urls will match index. That's probably the reason why the page appears to be refreshing. Try to modify this a little:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
url(r'^register$', views.register, name='register'),
url(r'^save$', views.projectz_save, name='project_save'),
)

This way you can execute the projectz_save method in the views.py if the action of the form matches the url regex.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 7

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