On Friday, February 4, 2011 9:24:48 AM UTC, Daniel Roseman wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 4, 2011 12:35:20 AM UTC, Ethan Yandow wrote:
>>
>> Hey there, I am trying to delete Events as chosen by a by a user using
>> check boxes to check of which events they want to be deleted. But for
>> some reason whenever I call request.POST.get('event_list') Nothing is
>> received even though boxes are checked and I end up with nothing.
>> Here is my template and the view that should be deleting the chosen
>> events.
>>
>> {% if event_list %}
>> {% for event in event_list%}
>> {%csrf_token%}
>> <input type="checkbox" name="event_list"
>> id="event{{ forloop.counter }}" />
>> <label for="event{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ event.title }}</
>> label><br />
>> {% endfor %}
>> <input type = 'submit' value = 'delete checked'>
>> </form>
>> <p>{{removal}}<p/> {%comment%} this is what should be
>> removed{%endcomment%}
>> {% if delete_error %}
>> <p>{{delete_error}}</p>
>> {% endif %}
>>
>> views.py
>>
>> def EventDelete(request):
>> removal = request.POST.get('event_list')
>> if removal:
>> removal.delete()
>> else:
>> delete_error = "You didn't delete anything"
>> return redner_to_response("detail.html", {'delete_error':
>> delete_error, 'removal': removal},
>> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>>
>> Im not sure why removal doesn't have anything in it, shouldn't it have
>> the titles of the events in it?
>>
>
> You haven't defined a `value` attribute for each checkbox.
>
> <input type="checkbox" name="event_list" value="{{ event.id}}" id="event{{
> forloop.counter }}" />
>
> Also, in your view, you should use `getlist` to get the value - `get` only
> gets the first element if it's a multi-valued field.
> --
> DR.
>
Meant to add, you should really be using Django's forms framework, as it
takes care of all of this for you.
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