Yeah, its a name of a field in my form. I want to the value automatically since I don't know the name of the place the user will choose. I tried adding your correction but i'm getting error.
On Dec 31, 2:33 am, Bill Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:11 PM, coded kid <[email protected]> wrote: > > I want to get an object value from a model. After trying the get() > > method, I've been unable to make it work.And I'm getting the below > > error. I have a page that display the name of a place to users, so if > > a user see a place he likes, he will go ahead and fill the form.And in > > the form, I want to get the name of the place automatically from > > another model, I don't want users to fill the name of the place. Below > > are my codes > > > NameError at /welcome/ > > > global name 'name' is not defined > > > Models > > > class Fin(models.Model): > > user=models.ForeignKey(User) > > name=models.CharField(max_length=100) > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return self.user > > > class Place(models.Model): > > user=models.ForeignKey(User) > > mall=models.ForeignKey(Fin) > > full_name=models.CharField(max_length=100) > > e_mail=models.EmailField(max_length=100) > > phone_no=models.CharField(max_length=100) > > pub_date=models.DateTimeField() > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return self.full_name > > class Meta: > > ordering=['-pub_date'] > > > class PlaceForm(ModelForm): > > class Meta: > > model=Place > > fields=('full_name','e_mail','phone_no') > > exclude=('user','pub_date','mall') > > > Views: > > > def place_me(request): > > if request.method=="POST": > > form=PlaceForm(request.POST) > > if form.is_valid(): > > data=form.cleaned_data > > newbooks=Place( > > user=request.user, > > pub_date=datetime.datetime.now(), > > mall=Fin.objects.get(name), > > full_name=data['full_name'], > > e_mail=data['e_mail'], > > phone_no=data['phone_no']) > > newbooks.save() > > return HttpResponse('Thanks for choosing themall, we will > > contact you as soon as possible.') > > else: > > return HttpResponse('Some fields are not filled > > correctly') > > else: > > return render_to_response('buuk.html', > > {'PlaceForm':PlaceForm},context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > > Perhaps you want: > > mail=Fin.objects.get(name="something") > > Where I'm not sure what "something" is. A field from your form, perhaps? > > Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.

