On 6/6/07, Vincent Nijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: If I want to save the file to a directory and information about > the submitter (e.g., name and time of submission) directly to a csv file, > how would I do that in Django? Do you need 'newforms' to do that? In the > documentation it seems that if you use newforms you would have to save > everything to a database. Is that really necessary? For some of my forms I > want to save information in a dbase that but probably not for all.
Newforms is a tool for constructing HTML forms. One obvious source of forms is to create a form that matches a database object, so newforms provides tools to assist in creating forms for database objects, with an easy method for saving objects that are created/modified using that form. However, forms don't have to be bound to a database object. You can create a form, gather data using that form, and then just use the data, rather than using it to populate a database object. It looks like what you need to do is: - write a custom form that gathers the data you need - write a custom view that displays the form, validates the data, then outputs the CSV file if the form data is valid. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
