On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Joshua Russo <josh.r.ru...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Divesh Gidwani <dagidw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, what kind of views do I need? I'm really confused about that
>> part.
>
>
> If you want to mimic the current application you will need to create custom
> views and forms. It's really easy once you get the idea, but it's taken me a
> couple of go-a-rounds to get the concepts solidified in my own head. The
> following is an extremely simplified version of a form I have on the home
> page of the app I'm working on.
>
> I'll start from urls.py:
>
> from adminTributaria.matriz import views
> ...
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> ...
> (r'^$', views.bemvindo)
> )
>
> Next views.py in my app called matriz:
>
> from django import template
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
>
> from adminTributaria.matriz.forms import BemvindoForm
>
> def bemvindo(request):
> if request.method == 'POST':
> curForm = BemvindoForm(request.POST)
> if curForm.is_valid():
> # Your form passed validation, do what you want with the data
> here
> # The cleaned_data dictionary will have proper Python objects
> curMatrizID = curForm.cleaned_data['matrizID']
> ...
> else:
> curForm = BemvindoForm()
>
> context = {
> 'title': _('Home'),
> 'form': curForm
> }
>
> return render_to_response('matriz/index.html', context,
> context_instance=template.RequestContext(request))
>
> Now the forms.py in matriz:
>
> from django import forms
>
> class BemvindoForm(MyForm):
> matrizID = forms.IntegerField()
> ...
>
>
> The only thing that I haven't shown here is the template. For my templates,
> I generally take a copy of base.html in
> django\contrib\admin\templates\admin\. I'll modify that how I like and then
> inherit from it. The template inheritance is really slick.
>
> I would recommend reading these sections of the docs:
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#topics-http-urls (If
> you are weak in the area of regular expressions, take time to understand
> them here, it makes all the difference)
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/views/#topics-http-views
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/#topics-forms-index
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#topics-templates
>
Sorry, cut and paste error
class BemvindoForm(MyForm):
should be
class BemvindoForm(forms.Form):
I subclassed forms.Form in my app
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