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Percy3872
Percy3872

Reputation: 17

django update form has no attribute save

I am trying to create a form which will allow users to update their name, I am using a forms.form instead of ModelForm because it gives you more control over the styling of the form because you can use widgets. when I go to save the form it says that updateNameForm has no attribute save

view 

def UpdateName(request,user_id):


if request.method == "POST":

   form = UpdateNameForm(request.POST,initial=initial)
   if form.is_valid():
     name = form.cleaned_data['name']
     form.save()
else:
    form = UpdateNameForm(initial=initial)

forms.py

class UpdateNameForm(forms.Form):
        name = forms.CharField(
        required=True,
        label="*Status",
        widget=forms.widgets.Select(attrs={'class' : 'span6 small-margin-top small-margin-bottom'})
    )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 625

Answers (2)

Percy3872
Percy3872

Reputation: 17

def UpdateName(request,user_id):
user = get_user(user_id)

if request.method == "POST":

   form = UpdateNameForm(request.POST,initial=initial)
   if form.is_valid():
     name = form.cleaned_data['name']
     user.name = name
     user.save()
else:
    form = UpdateNameForm(initial=initial)

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599490

A standard form class indeed has no save attribute - it doesn't know anything about any models to save to. You need to use a ModelForm.

Note also you need to pass the instance argument to the form to make it update an existing instance, rather than create a new one. You probably don't need initial at all.

Upvotes: 3

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