I have been searching for examples but everything that I see has a link to a database. How to you 'get' the data from a form in django? What is the equivalent of 'data = cgi.FieldStorage(keep_blank_values=1)' I would use with a Python cgi script?
Thanks, Vincent On 6/5/07 7:22 PM, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 %-) > > > -- Vincent R. Nijs Assistant Professor of Marketing Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2001 Phone: +1-847-491-4574 Fax: +1-847-491-2498 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: vincentnijs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
