On 22 December 2010 22:27, hank23 <hversem...@stchas.edu> wrote: > I've been going through a lot of the forms related documentation and > some things are still not clear, partly because of information > overload.
> First do I have to code/generate my forms using my models? No, forms can be used independently of models. > 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? Yes, they just won't be auto-generated from your models. > Like will I still be able to use field validators, Yes. Most form fields have some validators defined (like EmailField) and you can add more: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/validation/#using-validators and be able to use some of the methods like is_valid(), > clean(), is_bound, as_p(), as_ul(), as_table(), etc.? Everything except save(), 'cause there is nothing to save. > I would > appreciate any help, explanations, or links to good examples or > tutorials of using forms, other than the introductory django tutorial. > Thanks in advance for the help. You can take a look at djangobook: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter07/ -- Łukasz Rekucki -- 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.
