can't save data to the database

[Tosin Ayoola]

halo,

working on a contact us form to receive information from the user but my issue is the data doesn't get save to the database and i'm not getting any error message can anyone help out

below is my view an forms.py

[Andréas Kühne]

Hi,

First of all - are you sure that the form is valid? You don't show the ContactUs model, but I'm guessing that all fields are required? Are they all filled in?

Second - in the contact method you first check if it is a POST and then populate with: form = ContactUsForm(request.POST or None). 

The "or None" part won't do anything - it will never be called.

Finally - if the form ISN'T valid - the user won't get any response at all? It'll just go to en empty page?

Regards,

Andréas

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[Andréas Kühne]

Just move the return render part from the get request path to always return. That way you will get the form with the correct information when the form isn't valid.

Regards,

Andréas

Den mån 12 nov. 2018 kl 15:20 skrev Tosin Ayoola <tosina...@gmail.com>:

yes the form is valid and the issue is the form doesn't display any error if the required field are not filled

even when i use just the form = ContactUsForm(request.POST), it still doesn't work

as for the third wat do you suggest i do ?

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[Andréas Kühne]

No, I meant like this:

def Contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactUsForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            context = {'form': form} 
           
            return redirect('contactus.html')
    else:
        form = ContactUsForm()

    return render(request,  'contactus.html', {'form': form})

Also - the redirect should go to a valid django route - What is the route that you want to redirect to after a successful posting?

Another thing you should also look into is using class based views instead of function based views, because then you don't need to write as much code - but get this working first! :-)

Regards,

Andréas

Den mån 12 nov. 2018 kl 15:38 skrev Tosin Ayoola <tosina...@gmail.com>:

you mean i should have it like this

def Contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactUsForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            context = {'form': form}
           
            return redirect('contactus.html')



    else:
        form = ContactUsForm()
        return( 'contactus.html', ) or .....

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