how to get POST data in django 1.3

Question

Hey, I am following this tutorial to learn to make a wiki page with Django. However, it is made in django 0.96 and I use Django 1.3 so there are some things that are different.

Answer 1

You will need the {% csrf_token %} template tag in between your tags as well as including

   django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware
   django.middleware.csrf.CsrfResponseMiddleware

in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in the applications settings.py

Adding some example post data handling:

This is an example of one of the times I am using POST data in a view. I will generally rely on the form class to do verification via the cleaned_data array.

if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ForgotPassword(data=request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            try:
                new_user = backend.forgot_password(request, **form.cleaned_data)
            except IntegrityError:
                context = {'form':form}
                form._errors[''] = ErrorList(['It appears you have already requested a password reset, please \
                check ' + request.POST['email2'] + ' for the reset link.'])
                return render_template(request,'passwordReset/forgot_password.html',context)
            if success_url is None:
                to, args, kwargs = backend.post_forgot_password(request, new_user)
                return redirect(to, *args, **kwargs)
            else:
                return redirect(success_url)