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Mahad_Akbar
Mahad_Akbar

Reputation: 13

Extract the month from DateField in Django template

Want to extract the month and year from template

template_1.html

   <form method = 'POST'>
      <input type ='month' name = 'searchmonth'>
      <input type = 'submit' value = 'Search'>
   </form>

template_2.html

   {% for i in record %}
   {% if i.record_patient_number == number %}
   {{ month = i.record_date.getMonth() }}

   {% if month == searchrecordmonth %}
     *something*


   {% endif %}
   {% endif %}
   {% endfor %}

All variable are include in views.py

In this search month is not able to extract and record_date is save in models.py and as a 

    record_date = models.DateField(blank = True , null = True)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 583

Answers (1)

ibaguio
ibaguio

Reputation: 2368

You cannot set values while in django template, your code below is invalid

{{ month = i.record_date.getMonth() }}

to get the month, simply get it from the i.record_date

{% if i.record_date.month == searchrecordmonth %}

Upvotes: 1

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