Hello DR,
Sorry I was misleading. I was actually referencing a section form the
djangobook, chapter 7 -- not the tutorial.
And I have read the link you you sent, but as in other places in the
documentation, it seems the save command is only explained when in the
shell. I can't figure out how to translate that to my views.
On May 12, 4:44 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 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/
> --
> DR.
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