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Sashaank
Sashaank

Reputation: 964

Data not being saved to database with django forms

I am working on a django application, which contains a form. I defined the model and made the migrations. But the data is not being saved into the database. And the URL for the application gets messed up when I use submit the form.

This is my code so far

models.py

class modelPost(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=70)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=12)

    def publish(self):
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

forms.py

from .models import modelPost

class testForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = modelPost
        fields = ('name', 'email', 'phone')

views.py

from .forms import testForm

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        testForm = testForm(request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
            post = form.save(commit=False)
            post.save()
            return redirect('home')

    else:
        testForm = testForm()
        return render(request, 'index.html', {'testForm': testForm})

index.html

<form>
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ testForm.name|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.email|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.phone|as_crispy_field }}
    <input type="submit" value="check" class="save btn submit_button">
</form>

when I try to submit the form, this happens to the url

http://127.0.0.1:8000/?csrfmiddlewaretoken=BG2i7fSbwG1d1cOlLWcEzy5ZQgsNYzMrhDJRarXkR3JyhetpWvqNV48ExY7xM9EW&name=randomPerson&email=test%40test.com&phone=12345678

These are some links that I checked, but the answers dont work

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 345

Answers (2)

Vishal
Vishal

Reputation: 33

You need to specify the method in form tag , method = "post" and you need to give the path or url in form tag where you want to go after clicking the submit or check button. 

<form method="post" acton="Enter the path or url here">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ testForm.name|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.email|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.phone|as_crispy_field }}
    <input type="submit" value="check" class="save btn submit_button">
</form>

Also try to pass request in form parameters like testform(request, data=request.POST), It should work now.

Upvotes: 1

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476503

You did not make a POST request, you should specify method="post" in the <form> tag:

<form method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ testForm.name|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.email|as_crispy_field }}
    {{ testForm.phone|as_crispy_field }}
    <input type="submit" value="check" class="save btn submit_button">
</form>

By default the method is GET. You can actually see this, since the data is passed in the querystring of the URL. This thus means that the request.method == 'POST' check will fail, and therefore, it will indeed not save the data to the database.

Upvotes: 4

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