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Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 1479

Form post to Django view renders no input to database

So, Im trying to save a todo to a database with django. My template is as follows:

<form action="{% url 'todo:add' %}" method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <input type="text" id="text" value="{{new_todo_text}}"/>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit todo" />
</form>
{%if not_done_todos %}
    <ul>
        {%for todo in not_done_todos%}
            <li>
                <span>{{todo.text}}</span>
            </li>
        {%endfor%}
    </ul>
{%else%}
    <span>No todos for you!</span>
{%endif%}

My view where Im trying to catch the "new_todo_text" looks like this:

def add(request):
    """Add todo to database"""
    new_todo = Todo(text=request.POST.get('new_todo_text'),
                    done=False, date_created=timezone.now())
    new_todo.save()
    return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('todo:index'))

The problem is that the todo.text turns up empty no matter what I add to the form... whats my problem here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

nik_m
nik_m

Reputation: 12086

The problem is that inside your input element you have not declared a name attribute. That name attibute will be used as a key to fetch it with Django request.POST.

So, change to this:

<input type="text" id="text" name="new_todo_text" value="{{new_todo_text}}"/>

The request.POST dict-like will use the input's name and value to build the dict. Then you can do stuff like request.POST['input_name_here'].

Upvotes: 2

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