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Denis Culic
Denis Culic

Reputation: 35

How to get value of select form inside the views?

  1. In the HTML template I created a select form passing into it player names from Player Model.
  2. I want to delete the player selected in this form.
  3. Inside my views, I am trying to get the selected value as a string but I can't. for me it would be Player.objects.get(name="what is selected inside the form").

Can you please help? What should I do in order to get this value inside my views?

<div>
    <form method="POST" action = "" enctype="multipart/form-data">

        {% csrf_token %}

        <select name="to_delete" >
            {% for pl in players %}
            <option value="1">{{pl.name}}</option>
            {% endfor %}
        </select>


        <input type="submit" value="Delete"/>
    </form>

</div>


def deletePlayer(request,pk,sk):
    room = Room.objects.get(number=pk)
    player = Player.objects.get(number=sk)
    players = Player.objects.filter(room=room)
    if request.method == "POST":
        result = reguest.get('1')
        to_delete = Player.objects.get(name=result)
        to_delete.delete()


    context = {'room': room, 'players':players,'player':player}
    return render(request, 'base/delete_player.html', context)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 309

Answers (1)

Vinay Kumar
Vinay Kumar

Reputation: 312

Your form is sending the data using POST method. To delete the data with their names, change the value of options in select with their names as well like this

<option value="{{pl.name}}">{{pl.name}}</option>

Then inside your views.py

result = request.POST.get('to_delete')

then use result to delete it from your table.

Upvotes: 3

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