Django author Form not saving to database - python-3.x

Question

models.py
class Blog(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
slug = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)
post_pic = models.ImageField(upload_to ='media/post_pics/', default =None )
body = models.TextField()
posted = models.DateTimeField(db_index=True, auto_now_add=True)
#author = must be logged in, populate from login details
forms.py
class postForm(forms.Form):
title = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
slug = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
post_pic = forms.ImageField()
body = forms.CharField(widget=SummernoteWidget())
views.py
def write_detail(request):
template_name = 'blog/write.html'
if request.method == 'POST':
post_form = postForm(request.POST)
if post_form.is_valid():
new_post = Blog(title=title,slug=slug,post_pic=post_pic,body=body)
new_post.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect(blog.get_absolute_url())
else:
post_form = postForm()
return render(request, template_name, {'post_form': post_form})
write.html
{% extends 'blog/base.html' %}
{% load static %}
{% block back-img %}'{% static 'blog/assets/img/intro.jpg' %}'{% endblock back-img %}
{% block titdes %}Write{% endblock titdes %}
{% block title %}Write{% endblock title %}
{% block pagedes %}A django powered community blog{% endblock pagedes %}
{% block body%}
<form method = "POST">
{{ post_form.as_p }}
{% csrf_token %}
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Publish</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
I have set up this form so that authors can write articles to the blog without accessing the admin panel and I believe it should work but it isn't saving to the database.
I have tried to work on the views over and over but don't know what else to do. Please don't delete my question just ask any question that can help you help me.

Answer 1

in your forms.py
try
from .models import Blog
class postForm(forms.Form):
title = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
slug = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
post_pic = forms.ImageField()
body = forms.CharField(widget=SummernoteWidget())
class Meta:
model = Blog
fields = ('title', 'slug', 'post_pic', 'body')
PS. Iam new to Django, i hope this help you.

Answer 2

It looks like you just need to save the form, but you're creating a new Blog object with values that we can't see defined anywhere.
new_post = Blog(title=title,slug=slug,post_pic=post_pic,body=body)
title, slug, etc don't get defined.
What you should do, is change it to a ModelForm so that django does all the hard work;
class postForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Blog
fields = ('title', 'slug', 'post_pic', 'body')
widgets = {
'body': SummernoteWidget(),
}
Then in your view you just need to do;
def write_detail(request):
template_name = 'blog/write.html'
if request.method == 'POST':
post_form = postForm(request.POST)
if post_form.is_valid():
post_form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect(blog.get_absolute_url())
else:
# GET request
post_form = postForm()
return render(request, template_name, {'post_form': post_form})
The summernote docs for forms (and modelforms) is here
Don't forget, that when using a widget like this that comes with media, you need to add the form's media to the template.
You can access it in the HTML using either {{ form.media }} to get all CSS and JS, or individually as {{ form.media.js }} and {{ form.media.css }}
You can see how they do it in the summernote app playground

Answer 3

class postForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Blog
fields = ('title', 'slug', 'post_pic','body')
widgets = {
'body':SummernoteWidget(),
}
Sorry guys you can actually use django summer note with a model form. I used it before but the editor was not appearing so I changed it to the one I previously posted but after reading another answer on stack overflow. I found out that I didn't add this code below to my HTML files or just inside my base.html
<!-- include summernote css/js-->
<link href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/summernote/0.8.3/summernote.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/summernote/0.8.3/summernote.js"></script>
Thanks guys