actually I feel comfortable with custom html stuff.. thats why. ooopps yeah that was a typo since I typed everything while am on-the- go :)
I am new to django so I don't really know what to do. could you please a little more? thanks On Aug 20, 4:55 pm, "Emily Rodgers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why are you using your own <input> tags (just out of interest!)? It might be > that you have just provided a cut down version of your code but from what I > see, there are a few reasons why it may not be working properly. > > It looks like you are only passing the errors to the template, but not the > other form values. If you want the previous data, you will need to put it in > your context. > > Is any validation working at all, and is it saving any data to the db? It > looks like you are calling is_valid on your POST data (not on an instance of > your form object). If you want to pass your POST data to the form, you need > to do something like this: > > f = ContactForm(request.POST) > > Or if you need to put more data in (or munged data): > > contact_instance = Contact(att=value) > f = ContactForm(request.POST, instance=contact_instance) > > HTH > > Em > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: django-users@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will Rocisky > > Sent: 20 August 2008 11:24 > > To: Django users > > Subject: Re: how to populate data again after validation > > > I am just using... > > > model... > > class Contact(models.Model): > > Name = models.CharField(max_length=100) > > email = models.CharField(max_length=100) > > comments = models.TextField(blank=False) > > > form... > > class ContactForm(ModelForm): > > Name = forms.CharField(label='Name') > > email = forms.EmailField(label='Email') > > comments = > > forms.CharField(label='Comments',widget=forms.Textarea) > > > class Meta: > > model = Contact > > > views... > > f = ContactForm() > > f = request.POST > > if f.is_valid(): > > f.save() > > return HttpResponseRedirect('/home/') > > else: > > ctx = {} > > ctx['errors'] = f.errors > > return render_to_response('contact.html',ctx) > > > when it doesn't save because validation failed, it renders > > contact.html again, but blank. All previous data lost. > > > On Aug 20, 4:07 pm, "Emily Rodgers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > How are you doing your validation? Is the form populating a model > > > instance or doing something else? > > > > I would be helpful to see some of the function in your views file. > > > > Em > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: django-users@googlegroups.com > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will Rocisky > > > > Sent: 20 August 2008 10:45 > > > > To: Django users > > > > Subject: how to populate data again after validation > > > > > I am not using builtin {{form}} to print form in template. I am > > > > using my own <input> things. > > > > Now, after validation, when it shows error and comes back > > to form, > > > > all the data has disappeared. > > > > How can I keep data in fields even after validation. > > > > > I am using render_to_response --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
