You may want to try self.user.email instead of user.email.
- Ben
On 2/12/07, Silas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've created a newforms custom form in which I'm trying to update a
> user's email while making sure no other user currently has the new
> email address. Ignoring the fact that I could use the User generated
> forms, I was wondering if anyone could hint on the best way to pass a
> variable to a custom forms class.
>
> For some unknown reason the EditUserForm class doesn't see the user
> variable.
>
> The error I'm getting is: "global name 'user' is not defined" from the
> EditUserForm class.
>
> I know for certain that request.user is valid when I make the call.
> I'm pretty sure I don't understand how DeclarativeFieldsMetaclass
> works and I think this is where I'm having problems.
>
> Anyone care to enlighten me?
>
> Call from view.py:
>
> data = {'email': request.user.email,}
> form = EditUserForm(request.user, data)
>
> Forms Class:
>
> class EditUserForm(forms.Form):
> email = forms.EmailField()
>
> def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
> self.user = user
> super(EditUserForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>
> def clean_email(self):
> if user.email is not self.clean_data["email"]:
> email_exists = True
> try:email =
> User.objects.get(email__exact=self.clean_data["email"])
> except:email_exists = False
>
> if(email_exists):raise ValidationError(u"E-mail already in
> use by another user.")
>
> return self.clean_data["email"]
>
>
> >
>
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