Good morning Lekan. My response is inline... On May 6, 2016 4:21 AM, "Lekan Wahab" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Babatunde, > Thank you for answering my question. > I have actually done that. > But Django throws and error whenever I I instantiate form/for_class to ContactForm(request. POST). > It says it's expected only a single argumen. but two was provided. > That means you defined your form class without any arguments. I've looked at your form definition and that's exactly what's happening.
>> >> class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm): >> >> helper = FormHelper() >> >> helper.form_tag = False >> >> def __init__(self): # __init__ is given only one argument. You didn't supply all the other arguments needed for the form to work properly. >> >> super(ContactForm, self).__init__() >> >> for key in self.fields: >> >> self.fields[key].required= False >> >> self.fields[key].label = False >> >> >> >> >> >> class Meta: >> >> fields = '__all__' >> >> model = Contact > On 05 May 2016 10:36 PM, "Babatunde Akinyanmi" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Lekan. I have responded inline but my answer might not be a complete fix..... >> >> On May 5, 2016 4:56 PM, "Lekan Wahab" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > Please, i have a model form in forms.py which am trying to validate and update my database with. However, for some reason the form is not being validated. I have tried everything i could think of. It just reloads the page. >> > >> > views.py >> >> >> >> from django.shortcuts import render >> >> from information.forms import ContactForm >> >> from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect >> >> >> >> >> >> def index(request): >> >> form_class = ContactForm >> >> if request.method == 'POST': >> >> form = form_class() >> >> The above line creates an empty form because you didn't supply anything as the data argument therefore the is_valid method will never return True. You need to instantiate it with your POST data. Try: >> form = form_class(request.POST) >> >> if form.is_valid(): >> >> ###Dummy text to check validation >> >> return HttpResponse('Done') >> >> return render(request, 'information/index.html', {'form': form_class}) >> >> >> >> {'form': form_class} >> form_class is not an object. Perhaps you meant {'form': form} >> >> >> >> def complete(request): >> >> return HttpResponse("Thank you for contacting us") >> > >> > >> > models.py >> > >> >> >> >> from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper >> >> from django import forms >> >> from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError >> >> from django.forms import Form >> >> from information.models import Contact >> >> from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper >> >> from crispy_forms.layout import Layout,Fieldset, HTML >> >> from crispy_forms.bootstrap import TabHolder,Tab >> >> >> >> >> >> class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm): >> >> helper = FormHelper() >> >> helper.form_tag = False >> >> def __init__(self): >> >> super(ContactForm, self).__init__() >> >> for key in self.fields: >> >> self.fields[key].required= False >> >> self.fields[key].label = False >> >> >> >> >> >> class Meta: >> >> fields = '__all__' >> >> model = Contact >> > >> > >> > Thank you. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAE6v7oeD7Qb_%2BJrhiOzRTiDJ%3DqEPAY56B86nuxdZnrv2EP%2BrdQ%40mail.gmail.com . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2BWjgXMLEmHKdtAWBA%2BsO7zPD9XGAggUPVXsU5beqg%3Dwb2Ax5Q%40mail.gmail.com . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAE6v7ofhzu7D2wv3UzK8G4vybKH3pM%3DYWK3fZFzo5Cewk7LUeA%40mail.gmail.com . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2BWjgXO8WC7rEHM5nPSumuTjt9f7nZ14B0Z1HuaM1i3%3DnUjmwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
