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Reputation: 573

Django is not taking input from html POST form

I have this html form: 

<form method="post" action="">
    {% csrf_token %}
        <div class="inputText">
            <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" value = required />
            <br><br>
            <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required />
            <br><br>
            <input type="password" name="pass1" id="pass1" placeholder="Password" required />
            <br><br>
            <input type="password" name="pass2" id="pass2" onkeyup="checkPass(); return false;" placeholder="Confirm Password" required />
            <br><br>
            <span id="confirmMessage" class="confirmMessage"></span>
        </div>
        <div class="send">
            <input type="submit" name="register" value="Register" class="register" />
        </div>

This is my forms.py : 

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'email', 'password')

And my view

def register(request):
if request.method == "POST":
    form = UserForm(request.POST)
    if form.is_valid():
        form.save
        new_user = authenticate(username=request.POST['username'], password =request.POST['password'])
        login(request.new_user)
        return HttpResponseRedirect(request, '/index')
else:
    form = UserForm()
return render(request, 'authen/register.html', {'form': form})

This should be a register system but when I press register it reloads the register page and nothing. When I go to django admin I see no new user so django is not taking input from form fields.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4177

Answers (2)

Leo
Leo

Reputation: 469

Be sure to get the input element by its name attribute. This is because request.POST['keyword'] refers to the element identified by the specified html name attribute keyword.

Here's an example:

<form action="/login/" method="POST"> <input type="text" name="keyword" placeholder="Search query"> <input type="number" name="results" placeholder="Number of results"> </form>

In your Python file, where you get the value of the input elements, request.POST['keyword'] and request.POST['results'] will contain the values of keyword and results, respectively.

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

The form is presumably not valid, but you are not displaying any errors in your template. At least do {{ form.errors }} somewhere, although really you should output all the fields and their errors from the Django form directly:

{{ form.username }}
{{ form.username.errors }}

etc.

Also note you are not actually invoking the save method in your is_valid block. You need to do:

form.save()

Upvotes: 3

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