I am trying to create a frontend form in my Django site that will allow users to add entries to my SQL database.
But when I use the form nothing happens in my database. What am I doing wrong?
I thought the right way would be to use the ModelForm technique.
My models looks like this:
class Actor(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
wage = models.IntegerField(default=3100)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
So I wrote this in my forms.py:
from django import forms
from .models import Actor
class ActorForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Actor
fields = ['name', 'wage']
form = ActorForm()
I then added this to my views.py:
def get_actor(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = ActorForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
return HttpResponseRedirect('/scenes/thanks/')
else:
form = ActorForm()
return render(request, 'scenes/actor.html', {'form': form})
def thanks(request):
return render(request, 'scenes/thanks.html',)
And this in a template called actors.html
<form action="/scenes/actor/" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
You have to call the model form's save() method after checking that it's valid:
def get_actor(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = ActorForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/scenes/thanks/')
else:
form = ActorForm()
return render(request, 'scenes/actor.html', {'form': form})
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