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Roshan Yadav
Roshan Yadav

Reputation: 153

Value of Select Option in Django's Views.py

I am using select tag in template along with a link having 'submit' type inside a form tag. When I select an option from the dropdown and click on the button, it goes to the next page but I am unable to get the value of the options selected. Its showing AttributeError 'Manager' object has no attribute 'month'. Here is my code:

<form method="POST" action="{% url 'results' %}">
        {% csrf_token %}
<select name="mahina" id="month">
            <option value="all">All</option>
            <option value="jan">January</option>
            <option value="feb">February</option>
</select>
<a href="{% url 'results' %}" type="submit">Search</a>
</form>

Here is my views.py

from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import Results


def allresults(request):
    results = Results.objects
    if request.method == "GET":
        month = results.month
        year = results.year
        return render(request, 'results/allresults.html', {'results': results}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4619

Answers (1)

Sammy J
Sammy J

Reputation: 1066

So to get the form values in the views, you must do like form_val = request.GET.get('field_name', <default_value>) , so to add a few lines in the code

def allresults(request):
    # this will get the value of the selected item, print this to know more
    mahina = request.GET.get('mahina', None)

    #Just writing the below query field month randomly, since the models isn't posted
    results = Results.objects.filter(month=mahina)

    # We don't need to give GET since by default it is a get request

    # Since there are multiple objects returned, you must iterate over them to access the fields
    for r in results:
        month = r.month
        year = r.year

    return render(request, 'results/allresults.html', {'results': results}

Upvotes: 3

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