On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:43 PM, jim <jmpmcma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use request.POST.copy() to get a hidden field in an html
> template. The hidden field looks like:
>
> <input type="hidden" value="{% if post.url %}{{ post.url }}{%else
> %}""{%endif%}" name="url" />
>
> I also tried:
>
> <input type="hidden" value="{{ post.url }}" name="url" />
>
> In my view.py I have:
>
> postdata = request.POST.copy()
> url = str(postdata.get('url'))
>
> The value of url is None. Is there an additional trick to this?
1. Make sure that the hidden field is inside of the <form></form> tags.
2. You shouldn't need to copy the QueryDict to get the value:
url = request.POST.get('url', 'default') # or request.POST['url']
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