> First do I have to code/generate my forms using my models? No. Model forms are basically a shortcut to the very common use case of creating a form to update or save a single model object. With regular forms, you just have to explicitly declare your form fields instead of counting on the modelform module to build the fields for you based on the model.
> If not then if I code my form from scratch will it still have all or > most of the background functionality as it would if I had generated it > driectly from the models? Much of it. You won't have save() functionality built in, and the only validators run will be those related to your specific form field declarations, and those you explicitly define yourself -- i.e. it won't inherit any validation from your models because it's not linked to your models. > Like will I still be able to use field > validators and be able to use some of the methods like is_valid(), > clean(), is_bound, as_p(), as_ul(), as_table(), etc.? Yes, all of those. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
