Rajesh,
Thanks for your response. If I post the form to a dedicated view that
works fine, but how do I handle validation properly in this approach.
Say the user enters invalid data, do I now need to redirect them back
to the original page and then display these errors? That seems like it
will be a headache as well. Note that this form is a reusable form
that gets displayed within most templates so it's just a little
section of the page. If I now enter invalid data and post the form,
it's going to post to a different view that will then see the form is
invalid and then what??
Thanks,
Delino
On Jun 25, 5:02 pm, Rajesh D <rajesh.dha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 4:43 pm,delino<uker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have a simple scenario using Django 0.96 and am looking for a
> > cleaner solution than what I currently have:
>
> > I want to include a simple submission form (a few simple fields) on
> > most pages of my site. I have the form action set to '.' so that
> > validation can be done in place and errors displayed to the user. I am
> > currently checking for the POST and either handling it or creating a
> > new form in each of these views and then passing the form to each of
> > my templates, e.g.
>
> > def example_page(request):
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > form = SubmitMeForm(request.POST)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > # do your thing
> > return HttpResponseRedirect('/done/')
> > else:
> > form = SubmitMeForm()
>
> > variables = RequestContext(request, {
> > 'submitMeForm': form,
> > })
> > return render_to_response('somePage.html', variables)
>
> > I have 2 issues with this:
>
> > 1 - I have to include this code in each and every view that represents
> > a page that has this template. There has to be a simpler way of doing
> > it.
>
> > 2 - What if one of these pages has another Django form in it? I now
> > have to handle the fact that the POST could have resulted from this
> > form OR the other one. How would I do that?
>
> You could add your form to your request context using a context
> processor under a key other than 'form' (so it doesn't clash with
> forms defined by your other views). This way, your context processor
> will make this form available globally. Secondly, instead of posting
> this common form to '.', post it to a dedicated view that only knows
> how to process this common form.
>
> -RD
>
>
>
> > TIA
> > --delino
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