How to handle multiple forms in one function in views in Django

Question

I have to handle two forms in one function:

HTML page

<form name="selectgenderform" method = "POST">
  <select name='gender'>
   <option>Male</option>
   <option>Female</option>  
  </select>
 <input type = 'submit' name ='searchbtn' value= 'search' >
</form>


<form name="selectionform" method = "POST">
  <input type = 'hidden' name = 'valueofnumber' >
 <input type = 'submit' name = 'searchbtn' value= 'search' >
</form>

Views.py

 def formselection(request):
   if selectgenderform in request.POST:
     gender = request.POST.get('gender')
     ...

   elif selectionform in request.POST:
     value = request.POST.get('valueofnumber')

My query is to handle multiple forms in one function but this will not according to my demand

django11 · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-19 18:57:53Z

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if you want to keep the two separate forms:

if request.method == "POST" and "selectgenderform" in request.POST:
    *something*

if request.method == "POST" and "selectionform" in request.POST:
    *something*

you might also have to change the submit input names to "selectgenderform" and "selectionform"

edited Mar 19, 2020 at 18:57

answered Mar 19, 2020 at 16:44

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Jonathan Hall · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-30 07:07:02Z

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You can pass multiple forms and handle it using single function. However the trick is to keep the forms under one form tag in template. (Bear with me as I am typing on my phone)

views.py

def yourView(request):
    form1 = form1()
    form2 = form2()

    if request.method == "post":
        form1 = form1(request.POST)
        form2 = form2(request.POST)

        if form1.is_valid():
            #do something
        if form2.is_valid():
            #do something else 
   contest = { "form1": form1, "form2": form2 }
   return render(request, 'template.html', context=context)

template.html

    <form method="POST">
        {%csrf_token%}
        {{form1.as_p}}
        {{form2.as_p}}
    <button type="submit"> Submit </button>
    </form>

edited Apr 30, 2020 at 7:07

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answered Mar 19, 2020 at 17:20

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Mahad_Akbar Over a year ago

Thank you for your answer, but with this one first I have to make forms of table from models.py ?

k33da_the_bug Over a year ago

@Mahad_Akbar Not necessary. You can handle it manually too, but this one using forms is little bit cleaner approach.

Mahad_Akbar Over a year ago

Kindly can you explain it with manually, I am try it for long but this was not working

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