Question on creating a contact form app using bootstrap template

[Kim]

Hi,

I'm learning python/django and am building my personal page using this template (http://startbootstrap.com/templates/agency/). 

Since it already has a contact form, I would like to integrate django form app on that to actually work. 

I was looking at the django doc (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/) but I wasn't sure how to structure the system. 

Could anyone suggest me how to integrate the backend system into the template?

I would appreciate very much if you could give me sample code examples!

Thanks,

Kim

[Kim]

Anyone? 

2014年8月18日月曜日 16時13分28秒 UTC+9 Kim:

[Collin Anderson]

I recommend making the same contact form in django first, then merge the two. Your starter template only makes the form look good, it doesn't provide much functionality.

[Kim]

Thank you for the advice, Collin! 

However, If I have this HTML below, where should I put {{ form.[name] }}?

                             <form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate>

                                <div class="form-group">

                                    <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name *" id="name" required data-validation-required-message="Please enter your name.">

                                    <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>

                                </div>

                                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-xl">Send Message</button>

                             </form>

2014年8月19日火曜日 10時42分19秒 UTC+9 Collin Anderson:

[Martin Spasov]

Maybe you could copy the classes and id's from the template and put them in your form like this :

class  SomeForm(forms.Form):

    name=forms.CharField(attrs={'class':'form-control', 'id':'name'})

    message=forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'the class name thats on the templates form for the text input'})

And then pass the SomeForm to the view as some context variable, for example 'form'.

In your template :

                             <form name="sentMessage" id="contactForm" novalidate>

                                <div class="form-group">

                                   {%for field in form%}

                                       {{field.label}} {{field}}

                                   {%endfor%}

                                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-xl">Send Message</button>

                             </form>

This is just advice from beginner to beginner and if there is an easier way please correct me! If you choose this way Kim and you don't understand something please ask!

[Mario Gudelj]

Some other options:

- Install https://github.com/dyve/django-bootstrap-toolkit and use {{ form|as_bootstrap }}. See the docs for more options.

- http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Crispy Forms is amazing BTW (by the way)

- Render your labels with {{form.field_name.label}} and fields with {{form.field_name}} and errors with {{form.field_name.errors}} inside that boostrap markup. You'll have to do this individually for every field though. As for the attributes, such as placeholder, classes and data attributes, you have to pass the to the widget class inside attr={}

Cheers,

M

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