I am a Django newbie who is trying to convert an existing HTML based website to Django 3. The only complex piece of this page is a call to a Django method that uses the django.core.mail package and everything works, but, I am trying to pull some data off of the HTML template and pass it to this method.
The method works, only it sends a blank email. I am trying to pass contact information that the end user would fill out on the form. If I hard code the data into the method it works.
I have tried passing the data through urls.py, but, everything I try fails to even parse when I call the method. When I use a request.GET.get everything seems to work, just no data.
I was hoping to use something similar to JQuery like the following in the method.
name = str(request.GET.get('Name:', '').strip())
email = str(request.GET.get('Email:', '').strip())
msg1 = str(request.GET.get('Message:', '').strip())
with the fields being in the HTML form.
I am going to include some of the relevant configuration items below.
urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from . import views
app_name = 'willdoit'
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index),
#url(r'^contact/(?P<name>\.+)/(?P<email>\.+)/(?P<msg1>\.+)/?$', views.contact, name='contact'),
path('contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
]
views.py
def contact(request):
name1 = request.GET.get('name', '')
email1= request.GET.get('email', '')
msg1 = request.GET.get('message1', '')
subject = 'Work needed'
from_email = settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
message = name + ' ' + email + ' ' + msg1
recipient_list = ['pkustra914#gmail.com']
send_mail(subject, message, from_email, recipient_list, fail_silently=False)
return HttpResponse('Success')
Relevant HTML Template section
<div class="contact_content">
<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6 col-xs-12">
<div class="contact_message wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-duration="1.5s">
<form action="#" id="formid">
<form action="#" id="formid">
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="name"
placeholder="Name" required="" type="text"> </div>
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="email"
placeholder="Email" required="" type="email"> </div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="Descrizione"> <label for="InserisciDescrizione"
class=""><b>Message</b></label> <textarea class="form-control"
id="message" placeholder="Type message:" name="message1" rows="6" cols="50"
title="Message"></textarea> </div>
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
I would prefer to use the request.GET.get method, but, there is a lot more documentation passing it through the urls.
Thanks.
Your code request.GET.get('Name:', '') returns empty string when the key 'Name:' is not found.
To fix this, use request.GET.get('name', '') request.GET.get('email', '') request.GET.get('message', '') instead.
Details
I see that you are using a with template tag for nothing. The following line of code does not change the name attribute string to PascalCase. See with template tag (Docs)
{% with Name=name Email=email Message=message %}
Even if it worked, your code should be calling request.GET.get('Name', '') instead of request.GET.get('Name:', ''). But it won't work, as with would not modify the attribute names in the GET request.
#EDIT1
There are apparently more bugs in your html code. I have reformatted your code and listed up some obvious bugs.
<!--REFORMATTED CODE-->
<form action="#" id="formid"> <--------------DUPLICATES, remove one
<form action="#" id="formid"> <--------------DUPLICATES, remove one
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="name"
placeholder="Name" required="" type="text"> </div>
<div class="form-group"> <input class="form-control" name="email"
placeholder="Email" required="" type="email"> </div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="Descrizione">
<label for="InserisciDescrizione" class=""><b>Message</b></label>
<textarea class="form-control" id="message"
placeholder="Type message:" name="message1" rows="6" cols="50"
title="Message"></textarea>
</div>
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}"
class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
<-------- MISSING DIV END TAG
<-------- MISSING FORM END TAG
Furthermore, you are calling the server by url directly using the following code:
<a id="submit" href="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %}" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</a>
This does not tell the page which form you want to submit (there are cases where there are multiple forms).
You have two choices:
Replace the tag with standard html form submit button <input type="submit">, and add the url to the action attribute of the form. Use the following code to do so:
<form action="{% url 'willdoit:contact' %} id="formid">
...
...
<input id="submit" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Submit"/>
</form>
This solution will by default use the GET method to send a request to the server, and you will be able to get the inputted values by calling request.GET.get(name).
If you are using JQuery, you can replace the with the following:
Submit
This is however not recommended. Please use the standard html form input tag for the submit button.
Great. Moving the method call to the form tag worked great.
Thanks! You guys are the best.
There is 3 instances of 'authenticity_token' in this html:
<form class="edit_checkout" action="/942252/checkouts/624527ae778897e534d917b52af2eb28" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="patch" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="5vK3h2ocwaKm0hZ+AH3HAtnffe9l7hQHIMDfrMPusFhxtSV6IbLBfWOnBboOBysF7NyDPQ7GNxdfcWUPOk5WSQ==" />
<form class="edit_checkout" action="/942252/checkouts/624527ae778897e534d917b52af2eb28" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="patch" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="Fkw7j/Wv0Xxhna1aWNh8FsZhNnXz4zu0vFuTV0q9WJ6BC6lyvgHRo6Tovp5WopAR82LIp5jLGKTD6in0sx2+jw==" />
<form class="edit_checkout" data-payment-form="" action="/942252/checkouts/624527ae778897e534d917b52af2eb28" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="patch" /><input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="Bs1PNacx4rK5TJcl+VDO+RXnR69DixOH+osJ/yxuQQeRit3I7J/ibXw5hOH3KiL+IOS5fSijMJeFOrNc1c6nFg==" />
The actual token (the value I want) is the value attribute and in this case I want the 3rd instance of 'authenticity_token'.
All 3 instances start with <form class="edit_checkout" but the third is followed by data-payment-form="" instead of action="/ . so I know the one I want is the one that includes data-payment-form
I tried using this code in Cheerio:
$('form.edit_checkout input['name="authenticity_token"']')
But that returns the first auth token on the first line and I need the auth token on the third line.
Thanks!
How about:
let input = $('[name="authenticity_token"]')[2]
Then to get the value:
let value = $(input).attr('value')
I have created a slider as in input field. I am not able to get its value in formGroup. I am stucked.
My code:
<form [formGroup]="Form" novalidate (ngSubmit)="BasicDetail(Form.value)>
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="drags">
<input class="ex6" type="text" data-slider-min="0" data-slider-max="10" data-slider-step="1" data-slider-value="5"/>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Help needed.
Make sure input is slider type, meaning range
type="range"
If you're going to create a submit form fucntion where you feed your form, then it's template-driven, so get rid of your formGroup property, (assuming this is what you want since you've shown no effort on the component.ts side)
Give your form a reference form
<form #form="ngForm" novalidate (ngSubmit)="BasicDetail(form.value)">
Create a button to submit
<button class="btn btn-primary"type="submit"> Submit </button>
Make sure to give your form input a name, and assign it ngModel
If you want also direct access, create a two-way binding, say with variable called rangeValue
[(ngModel)]="rangeValue"
Make sure you're actually using real range input types, I don't know where you got data-slider from
<form #form="ngForm" novalidate (ngSubmit)="BasicDetail(form.value)">
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="drags">
<input class="ex6"
type="range"
min="0" max="10"
step="1"
name="someRange"
[(ngModel)]="rangeValue"
ngModel/>
</div>
</div>
<button class="btn btn-primary"type="submit"> Submit </button>
</form>
Inside your component.ts, declare variable and try to log it on submit
rangeValue = 5;
constructor( ) {}
ngOnInit() {
}
BasicDetail(form: any) {
console.log(this.rangeValue);
console.log(form.someRange);
}
I am trying to build an app that lets users find other users with a specific combination of skills. I ask the users to select which skills they are looking for via checkboxes but I'm not sure how to request for the status of that checkbox in my function.
My function currently is:
UserInfo.find()
.where('skill1').equals('')
.where('skill2').equals('')
.where('skill3').equals('')
.limit(10)
.then(function(doc) {
res.render('index', {items: doc});
});
It works properly if I set the equals('') to true or false but I'm not sure how to set it dynamically. My HTML code for the checkboxes is:
<form action="/getskills" method="get">
<div class="input">
<label for="skill1">Skill1</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill1" name="skill1" value="skill1"/>
</div>
<div class="input">
<label for="skill2">Skill2</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill2" name="skill2" value="skill2"/>
</div>
<div class="input">
<label for="skill3">Skill3</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill3" name="skill3" value="skill3"/>
</div>
FIND SKILL
</form>
How can I create and integrate a function to check the value of the checkbox and set the value of the required skill to either true or false?
Thanks in advance for your help.
The problem is that you are using an <a> element to perform the request to the server instead of <input type="submit">. Without a submit button, the elements on your form will not be submitted with the request. Modify your html to this
<form action="/getskills" method="get">
<div class="input">
<label for="skill1">Skill1</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill1" name="skill1" value="skill1" />
</div>
<div class="input">
<label for="skill2">Skill2</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill2" name="skill2" value="skill2" />
</div>
<div class="input">
<label for="skill3">Skill3</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="skill3" name="skill3" value="skill3" />
</div>
<input type="submit" value="FIND SKILL" />
</form>
then in your Node.js code (I assume you are using express), you can get the checkbox values as query parameters as follows:
//I'm assuming the req parameter is passed in to the express get() method
UserInfo.find()
.where('skill1').equals(req.query.skill1)
.where('skill2').equals(req.query.skill2)
.where('skill3').equals(req.query.skill3)
.limit(10)
.then(function(doc) {
res.render('index', {items: doc});
});
I need to redirect page into external site with POST parameters, but I cannot use vanilla HTML <form action="url"> like it is explained here:
JSF commandButton - passing POST params to an external site
because then the form would be within a jsf form - and it doesn't work.
Is it possible to use:
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect("http://example.com");
with POST parameters without additional vanilla form somehow? Or maybe there is other way to acheive this without form?
Try something like this:
JAVASCRIPT:
function redirect() {
document.getElementById("mySubmitButton").submit();
}
XHTML:
<h:form>
<span onclick="javascript:redirect()" class="linkClass">REDIRECT</span>
</h:form>
<div style="display:none:"> <!-- If you want it hidden -->
<form action="http://external/myplace.html" method="post">
<input type="hidden" value="value1"></input>
<input type="submit" id="mySubmitButton"</input>
</form>
</div>
EDIT: Added another test.
PASSING DYNAMIC PARAMETER:
In this example we assume that we are always going to send a value.
JAVASCRIPT:
function redirect(dynamicValue) {
document.getElementById("dynamicField").value = dynamicValue;
document.getElementById("mySubmitButton").submit();
}
XHTML:
<h:form>
<span onclick="javascript:redirect('myValue')" class="linkClass">REDIRECT</span>
</h:form>
<div style="display:none:"> <!-- If you want it hidden -->
<form action="http://external/myplace.html" method="post">
<input id="dynamicField" type="hidden" value=""></input>
<input type="hidden" value="value1"></input>
<input type="submit" id="mySubmitButton"</input>
</form>
</div>