Problem Working with forms.Form

[Teddy McZieuwa]

Hi,
please, I am new to django, I just need to know to save to a database while using 'forms.Form' utility and how does it know which database model to use. I do not want to use the 'forms.ModelForm' because i would like to customize, I don't want django giving me its default style form.
Please I really need help ASAP. Thank you.

[Gergely Polonkai]

Hello,

you should use ModelForm; if the only problem you have is the CSS properties, you may assign custom CSS classes to your widgets, and use templates to render your fields individually.

Best,
Gergely

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[sum abiut]

You can use modelForm.

for example in you form.py file, you can do something like this:

class addstaff(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model =new_staff
        fields =('first_name', 'last_name', 'gender', 'date_of_birth')

and in your view.py you do something like this:

def newstaff(request):
    if request.POST:
        form =addstaff(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return render_to_response("successful.html")
    else:
        form =addstaff
    args={}
    args.update(csrf(request))
    args['form']=form
    return render_to_response('addnewstaff.html', args)

Cheers

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[Teddy McZieuwa]

Thank you very much, I was able to use ModelForm with widgets.......Thanks!