Django forms are similar to advanced
To render Django forms as a table, you need to use the
{{ form.as_table}} command.
First, you will need to install Django, which can be done using the following commands:
pip install pipenv
pipenv shell
pipenv install django
Next, create your Django project:
django-admin startproject DjangoForm ./
python manage.py startapp codebase
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
First, you will need to add the project name to go to the settings.py file, as shown below.
INSTALLED_APPS = ['django.contrib.admin','django.contrib.auth','django.contrib.contenttypes','django.contrib.sessions','django.contrib.messages','django.contrib.staticfiles','codebase']
Note:
codebaseshould be replaced by the name of your Django project.
Next, in the codebase application folder, go to the models.py file and create the following model:
from django.db import models# Create your models here.class DataModel(models.Model):name = models.CharField(max_length = 200)department = models.CharField(max_length=300)age = models.IntegerField()def __str__(self):return self.name
Once your model is created, you need to register it in the admin.py file, as shown below:
from django.contrib import adminfrom .models import DataModeladmin.site.register(DataModel)
With the configuration complete, you can create a file for the form. In our case, the file is named forms.py.
from django import formsclass DataForm(forms.Form):name = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)department = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)age = forms.IntegerField(# help_text = "Enter 6 digit roll number",widget=forms.NumberInput())
With the form created, you can now create a view for your project. The corresponding views.py file is shown below:
from django.shortcuts import redirect, renderfrom .models import DataModelfrom .forms import DataFormdef home(request):form = DataForm(request.POST or None)if request.method == 'POST':# form.is_valid() make the form to submit only# when it contains CSRF Tokenif form.is_valid():# form.cleaned_data returns a dictionary of validated form input fieldsname = form.cleaned_data['name']department = form.cleaned_data['department']age = form.cleaned_data['age']queryset = DataModel(name=name,department=department, age=age)queryset.save()return redirect('home')else:passcontext = {'form':form}return render(request, 'app/home.html', context)
Next, in the codebase app folder, create a folder and name it templates. Inside the templates folder, create another folder and name it app. Inside the app folder, create the home.html file as shown below:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><title>Document</title></head><body><form action='.' method="POST">{% csrf_token %}{{ form.as_table }}<input type="submit" value="Submit"></form></body></html>
Within the main folder, in the urls.py file, you need to add a route to the URLs of the codebase app, as shown below:
from django.contrib import adminfrom django.urls import path, includeurlpatterns = [path('admin/', admin.site.urls),# including the codebase urls.py filepath('', include('codebase.urls'))]
Finally, in the codebase folder, create a file called urls.py that contains the route to the home view:
from django.urls import path#importing home function from views.pyfrom .views import homeurlpatterns = [path('', home, name='home'),]
Once the entry process is complete, run the following commands:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
In case you want to create a super-user, run the following command.
python manage.py createsuperuser
Once you’re ready to access your newly created form, run this command:
python manage.py runserver
The command above starts your server on the URL
http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin, which you can now access.