Passing both the form and the object is the solution I use. It may not
be completely DRY, but I can't see how it's bad. You need access to
the data in an object so you pass the object. Much more sensible than
trying to extract those values from a more complicated data
structure.
Kevin
On Feb 18, 5:52 am, koranthala <koranth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am unable to extract values from form fields inside templates.
> For example:
> I have mutiple text fields in which one field says whether the
> second field is X or not and the second field containing the actual
> data. (These are initial values which I send from server to client)
> Now, in case it is of type X, I want to do something in the
> template.
>
> I tried to do it as follows:
> In template:
> {% ifequal forms.typename "username" %}
> {{ form.name }} <img src={{form.img}}/>
> {% else %}
> {{ form.text }}
>
> Django Code:
> class frm(forms.Form):
> typename = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput())
> text = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput())
> name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput())
> img = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput())
>
> I was unable to do it via forms, since I cannot extract the data.
> so I have to have another variable which sends the same data - which
> is against the DRY principle.
>
> Is it possible to extract the text data from the form widgets?
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