How to send parameter to view?

[Kubilay Yazoğlu]

Hello. I have two apps. Posts and Contests.

In templates/contest/detail.html, there is a button that takes you to templates/post/create.html

What I want is to send the contest name from detail to create so that the post will be added to the right contest. For that, I guess I should do something to send contest name from detail.html to create view of post/create. Right?

In the following code (post\views.py), the contest name is determined randomly. Help me to get the right contest please.

if request.method == 'POST':
    items = Contest.objects.all()
    random_item = random.choice(items)
    form = PostForm(request.POST, request.FILES)

    if form.is_valid():
        post = form.save(commit = False)
        post.contest = random_item
        post.ownername = request.user
        post.save()
        messages.success(request, 'You have succesfully sent a post')
        return HttpResponseRedirect(random_item.get_absolute_url())
else:
    form = PostForm()

[Etienne Robillard]

Hi Kubilay,

I guess you could use sessions for that.

For example:

contest = request.session['contest_name']

See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/sessions/

HTH

Etienne

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