Issue
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I am having trouble working with models and forms in Django. A little clarification and help will be highly appreciated!
I am really confused because I do not see the form in my html url page. I see everything else but not the form. I assume, I’m missing something.
This is my models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class TwitterContainer(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Twitter_API_key = models.fields.CharField(max_length=100)
Twitter_API_key_secret = models.fields.CharField(max_length=100)
Twitter_API_token = models.fields.CharField(max_length=100)
Twitter_API_token_secret = models.fields.CharField(max_length=100)
def __str__(self):
return f'{self.user.username} Twitter Container'
This is my views.py
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib import messages
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from .forms import TwitterUpdateForm
@login_required
def twitter(request):
tw = TwitterUpdateForm(request.POST, instance=request.user)
if tw.is_valid():
tw.save()
messages.success(request, f'NICE!')
return redirect ('home')
else:
tw = TwitterUpdateForm(request.POST, instance=request.user)
context = {'tw': tw}
return render(request, 'twitter_container/twitter_container.html', context=context)
And last but not least, this is my html file.
{% extends 'home/base.html' %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
<div class="content-section">
</div>
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
<fieldset="form-group">
<legend class="border-bottom mb-4">Profile Information</legend>
{{ u_form|crispy }}
{{ p_form|crispy }}
</fieldset>
<div class="form-group">
<button class="btn btn-outline-info" type="submit">Update</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
{% endblock content %}
Oh, and my urls.py as well.
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('home.urls')),
path('register/', user_views.register, name='register'),
path('login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='users/login.html'), name='login'),
path('logout/', auth_views.LogoutView.as_view(template_name='users/logout.html'), name='logout'),
path('profile/', user_views.profile, name='profile'),
path('twitter/', twitter_views.twitter, name='twitter'),
]
The issue, I’m facing is that I’m unable to display the form fields from the model to the html. I want to be able to import information into the fields and update it to the database.
Please, do not judge me hard, I am completely newbie.
Thanks in advance.
Solution
First of all, you need to add action attribute in your form tag to call the view function when form gets submitted.
It should be like this:
<form method="POST" action ="{% url 'twitter' %}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Second thing that i found wrong in your html code is, why did you use u_form and p_form as a context variable? it should be ‘tw’ as per your view.
Try it out with above changes, it might help you out with your requirements.
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