On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Juan Hernandez <vladjani...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi there:
>
> I have this model for example
>
> class Categories(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
>
> which holds this data on the DB
>
> +----+--------------+
> | id | name |
> +----+--------------+
> | 1 | Musica |
> | 2 | Programacion |
> | 3 | Libros |
> | 4 | Politica |
> | 5 | Humor |
> | 6 | Basura |
> | 7 | Varios |
>
> How come now, everytime I create a form with either this
>
> class PostForm(ModelForm):
> post = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea({'rows': '20', 'cols':
> '75'}))
> class Meta:
> model = Post
> exclude = 'id'
>
> or this
>
>
> class CategoriesForm(forms.Form):
> categories = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Categories.objects.all())
>
>
> It shows this HTML output on the select field?
>
> <tr><th><label for="id_categories">Categories:</label></th>
>
> <td><select name="categories" id="id_categories">
>
> <option value="" selected="selected">---------</option>
>
> <option value="1">Categories object</option>
> <option value="2">Categories object</option>
>
> <option value="3">Categories object</option>
> <option value="4">Categories object</option>
>
> <option value="5">Categories object</option>
>
> <option value="6">Categories object</option>
> <option value="7">Categories object</option>
>
> </select></td></tr>
>
> What is going on here? Am I missing something now? I've been doing this for
> a long time and I guess I forgot something
>
> >
>
By default it uses the __unicode__ method to show the output. So either
define __unicode__ on the Post class, or do what's described here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#modelchoicefield
Alex
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