Great,
Tom I looked a the django book carefully and did the following:
return render_to_response('listing.html', {'form':form,'error': True})
and works...
thanks for responding as well
On Jul 14, 7:37 am, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, reduxdj <patricklemi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI,
>
> > Forgive me, here's another n00b doozie. I've created a form, which
> > extends form, however, my form is not validating and I can't get the
> > form to print errors next to my form fields. What's curious, at the
> > form.is_valid()
> > in all the examples, I don't see an else: clause. Which leads me to
> > believe that a validation error should be
> > raised at this point, so an else is not neccessary??
>
> > So, my form should hold clean_fieldname methods for each field name
> > correct? and if an error is raised,
> > automagically, django handles the error messages, as long as it's
> > defined in my template, correct or not?
> > So every property needs a clean method?
>
> > Sorry, I've read the resources and I'm a little unclear on this?
>
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Django and the community rocks
>
> > from my views:
>
> > def listing(request):
> > if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
> > new_listing = Listing()
> > form = ListingForm(data=request.POST,instance=new_listing)
> > #form.save()
> > if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
> > form.save()
> > return HttpResponseRedirect('/listing/') # Redirect after
> > POST
> > #else:
> > #return HttpResponseRedirect('/listing/') # Redirect after
> > POST
> > #return HttpResponse('form is a failure, like you.')
> > #return HttpResponseRedirect('/create/') # Redirect after
> > POST
> > else:
> > form = ListingForm() # An unbound form
> > return render_to_response('listing.html', {
> > 'form': form,
> > })
>
> Unindent the 'return render_to_response(...' lines, so that they are
> executed when you have an invalid form. The form will be re-rendered,
> except this time the form instance will be bound, and have appropriate
> error messages in it.
>
> eg:
>
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = ...
> if form.is_valid():
> ...
> else:
> form = ...
> return render_to_response(...)
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
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