Create View - Function based Views Django

Last Updated : 18 Nov, 2025

A Create View in Django allows adding new records to the database through a form.

Shows a form for entering new data.
Checks the submitted data for correctness.
Saves the new record to the database if the form is valid.
Provides a simple way to collect and store user input.

Example: Consider a project named 'geeksforgeeks' having an app named 'geeks'. After you have a project and an app, let's create a model of which we will be creating instances through our view.

In geeks/models.py:

Python

from django.db import models
 
class GeeksModel(models.Model):

    # fields of the model
    title = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    description = models.TextField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

After creating this model, we need to run two commands in order to create Database.

Python manage.py makemigrations
Python manage.py migrate

Create a forms.py file in the geeks folder and add the following code to create a ModelForm for this model, as ModelForm automatically generates form fields based on the model’s fields and is used to collect and validate user input.

Python

from django import forms
from .models import GeeksModel

class GeeksForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = GeeksModel
        fields = [
            "title",
            "description",
        ]

With the backend setup complete, create a view and template to handle the form in geeks/views.py:

Python

from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import GeeksModel
from .forms import GeeksForm

def create_view(request):
    context = {}

    form = GeeksForm(request.POST or None)
    if form.is_valid():
        form.save()
        
    context['form'] = form
    return render(request, "create_view.html", context)

Create a template in templates/create_view.html:

html

<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">

    <!-- Security token -->
    {% csrf_token %}

    <!-- Using the formset -->
    {{ form.as_p }}
    
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>