Submit Data from a HTML form to a Database in Django

Question

What I'm trying to do is to allow a user to enter any text in a form and have the data stored in a database. However, it is not being saved when I test it. I'm sure it's probably something stupid, but any help will be appreciated. I'm also pretty new to using Django.

Below is what I have currently have. Any help will be appreciated.

models.py:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import models

class TEST(models.Model):
    test_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

forms.py:

from django import forms

class Test_Form(forms.Form):
    test_name = forms.CharField(max_length=100)

views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from Test.forms import Test_Form
from Test.models import Test
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def index(request):
    return render(request, 'Test/Test.html')

def Test_View(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':

        form = Test_Form(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
                test_name = request.POST.get('test_name', '')

        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('Test:IOC'))

    else:
        form = Test_Form()

    return render(request, 'Test/Test.html', {'form': form})

Snippet from test.html

<form action="/Test/" method="POST" id="Test" class="form-horizontal form-groups-bordered"     role="form">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-group">

<div class="row">
    <label class="col-lg-2 control-label" for="test_title">Full Name of Test</label>
    <div class="col-lg-8">
        <input id="ioc_name" class="form-control" name="test_name" type="CharField" data-validate="required" placeholder="ex: This is a test">
</div>

<div class="col-lg-1 col-lg-offset-9">
    <a class="btn btn-success btn-icon">
    Submit
        <input type="submit" />
        <i class="entypo-check"></i>
    </a>
</div>
</form>

Why do you think this code should save anything? Where are you doing anything to cause data to be saved? — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented Feb 18, 2017 at 15:19

RompePC · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-18 15:30:33Z

The model instance isn't save automatically with magic. You need to instantiate it, assign the data, and call the save method, like this:

test = TEST(test_name=form.cleaned_data["test_name"])
test.save()

Or in one step: TEST.create(test_name=form.cleaned_data["test_name"])

Or even shorter (if I remember well): TEST.create(**form.cleaned_data)

You should check the docs from creating forms from models, it'll get your work easier (this is for Django 1.1.0) (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/forms/modelforms/)

Also, your input is wrong:

You have to set type to a valid value (text in this case). Anyway, as t doesn't recognizes CharField as a valid type, it sets its value to text, which is the default, so you don't have problems here. Valid types
I don't know if data-validate is part of your own code, but if not and you wanna the field be required before hitting submit, you should use required, which is an HTML attr.

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