Django Forms Newbie Question

Question

Alright, I\'m at a loss with the Django Forms, as the documentation just doesn\'t seem to quite cover what I\'m looking for. At least it seems to come to a screeching halt once

Answer 1

First, you create a ModelForm for a given Model. In this example I'm doing it for Quiz but you can rinse and repeat for your other models. For giggles, I'm making the "label" be a Select box with preset choices:

from django.models import BaseModel
from django import forms
from django.forms import ModelForm

CHOICES_LABEL = (
    ('label1', 'Label One'),
    ('label2', 'Label Two')

)

class Quiz(models.Model):
    label = models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=400)
    slug = models.SlugField()

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.label

class QuizForm(ModelForm):
    # Change the 'label' widget to a select box.
    label = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Select(choices=CHOICES_LABEL))

    class Meta:
       # This tells django to get attributes from the Quiz model
       model=Quiz

Next, in your views.py you might have something like this:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from forms import *
import my_quiz_model

def displayQuizForm(request, *args, **kwargs):
   if request.method == 'GET':
       # Create an empty Quiz object. 
       # Alternately you can run a query to edit an existing object.

       quiz = Quiz()
       form = QuizForm(instance=Quiz)
       # Render the template and pass the form object along to it.
       return render_to_response('form_template.html',{'form': form})

   elif request.method == 'POST' and request.POST.get('action') == 'Save':
       form = Quiz(request.POST, instance=account)
       form.save()
       return HttpResponseRedirect("http://example.com/myapp/confirmsave")

Finally your template would look like this:

  
  

  


   

    {{ form.as_ul }}