Re-Order rendering of input fields of django-contact-form?

[Tobias Dacoir]

I'm using django-contact-form which allows me to subclass it and add custom fields to it. However all my added fields will appear at the bottom. I even tried overwriting the original fields but still the order they appear is wrong. How can I control this? I tried searching for an answer, but only found ModelForm info that didn't work as the parent just inherits from forms.Form and is not a ModelForm.

Parent Class cound be found here: https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-contact-form/src/4b7d2fa20c1d01568fb7c4c800155378e176923b/contact_form/forms.py?at=default

My overwritten class:

class CustomContactForm(ContactForm):
    REASON = (
        ('support', 'Support'),
        ('feedback','Feedback'),
    )
    reason = forms.ChoiceField(choices=REASON, label='Reason')
    name = forms.CharField(max_length=100,
                           label=u'Your name')
    email = forms.EmailField(max_length=200,
                             label=u'Your email address')
    body = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea,
                              label=u'Your message')

and my template:

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block body_block %}
<h2>Contact Form</h2>
  <p>To send us a message fill out the below form.</p>
        <form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
            <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
{% endblock %}

[Paul Royik]

Try

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(CustomContactForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields.keyOrder = ['name', 'reason', 'email', 'body']

[Tobias Dacoir]

Unfortunately this doesn't work as the contact form needs to be passed the request as well. I tried to modify the call to super but it didn't work.

As a workaround what I did now was to look at the HTML Code that the tag {{ form.as_p }} creates, and copy and paste that into the HTML template instead of using {{ form.as_p }}. Then I can freely shuffle around my fields, however for stuff like Choice Widgets, I need to supply the options in the HTML code as well, which is quite troublesome.

So far I still haven't found a real solution. :(

[Paul Royik]

So pass the request

def __init__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        self.request=request
        super(CustomContactForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) 

[Tobias Dacoir]

It still complained about the request, but I was finally able to get it to work using this code:

    def __init__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):

        super(CustomContactForm, self).__init__(request=request, *args, **kwargs)
        fields_keyOrder = ['name', 'reason', 'email', 'body']
        if (self.fields.has_key('keyOrder')):
            self.fields.keyOrder = fields_keyOrder
        else:
            self.fields = OrderedDict((k, self.fields[k]) for k in fields_keyOrder)

However it still does not re-order the fields, I searched stackoverflow again and found this for Django 1.7: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/issues/356#issuecomment-24758824
But it still does not work. The order doesn't change it all. sigh :(

[Tobias Dacoir]

Ah it works. After I restarted Django and hit F5 again it re-orders it now. So the code above is the solution.
Thanks!

[Aashutosh Rathi]

Yes, this works for me.

Make sure

super(AddLabForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

       fields_keyOrder = ['id', 'date', 'start_time', 'end_time']

       if 'keyOrder' in self.fields:

           self.fields.keyOrder = fields_keyOrder

       else:

           self.fields = OrderedDict((k, self.fields[k]) for k in fields_keyOrder)

[amit pant]

can we use clean method instead of __init__

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