I am a beginner and did a lot of search but every time I got only "django to html" as search result every time. I am following this tutorial:
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter07.html
but on the way I am not able to pass paramter from html to view.py.
Here is my directory:
directory: mysite:
directory: books
directory: templates
search_form.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Search</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="/search/" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q">
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
</body>
</html>
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def search_form(request):
return render(request, 'books/search_form.html')
def search(request):
if 'q' in request.GET:
message = 'You searched for: %r' % request.GET['q']
else:
message = 'You submitted an empty form.'
return HttpResponse(message)
urls.py for books
from django.conf.urls import url,include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$',views.search_form,name='search_form'),
url(r'^$', views.search,name='search'),
]
and urls.py in mysite directory
"""mysite URL Configuration
The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/http/urls/
Examples:
Function views
1. Add an import: from my_app import views
2. Add a URL to urlpatterns: url(r'^$', views.home, name='home')
Class-based views
1. Add an import: from other_app.views import Home
2. Add a URL to urlpatterns: url(r'^$', Home.as_view(), name='home')
Including another URLconf
1. Add an import: from blog import urls as blog_urls
2. Import the include() function: from django.conf.urls import url, include
3. Add a URL to urlpatterns: url(r'^blog/', include(blog_urls))
"""
from django.conf.urls import url,include
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^books/', include('books.urls')),
]
Now the problem is when I type: http://127.0.0.1:8000/books/
it successfully shows the form's textbox and submit button but when I press submit it shows me this:
urls.py.<form action="{% url 'search' %}" method="get">and never use hardcoded urls in templates. Also i'd suggest to start using class based views