On May 12, 10:14 pm, "asdjohn...@gmail.com" <asdjohn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just started with Django a few days ago and have gone through
> the tutorial but can't figure out how to save user inputed data to the
> database.
>
> For example, in chapter 7 we learn how to collect data and use it to
> send an email:
>
> def contact(request):
> errors = []
> if request.method == 'POST':
> if not request.POST.get('subject', ''):
> errors.append('Enter a subject.')
> if not request.POST.get('message', ''):
> errors.append('Enter a message.')
> if request.POST.get('email') and '@' not in request.POST
> ['email']:
> errors.append('Enter a valid e-mail address.')
> if not errors:
> send_mail(
> request.POST['subject'],
> request.POST['message'],
> request.POST.get('email', 'nore...@example.com'),
> ['siteow...@example.com'],
> )
> return HttpResponseRedirect('/contact/thanks/')
> return render_to_response('contact_form.html',
> {'errors': errors})
>
> But what if you just want to save that data to the database? I've
> played with swapping the "send_mail" with "save" but cannot seem to
> get the syntax down right.
>
> This has to be something simple that I'm overlooking. Any help would
> be appreciated.
Save it to the database where? You haven't associated it with a model,
here you're just taking arbitrary POST data and using it to send an
email. If you want to save to the database you need to define a model,
create an instance using your POST data, and save it.
I don't know what book you are following (the tutorial doesn't have a
chapter 7), but you need to learn about ModelForms, which handle this
for you automatically. Look them up in the main documentation:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/
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