Can't get forms to render in Django

Question

I'm working on a project and I don't get the django forms to render on any of my pages. I've compared it to django girls code, as that is what I usually consult but it looks virtually identical to it. It's not just this page, my other pages have issues with rendering the forms as well. Here's the code:

Views.py

from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import *
from .forms import *
from django.shortcuts import render, get_object_or_404
from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib.auth import login, authenticate
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.db.models import Sum
from django.utils import timezone
from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST
from .cart import Cart
from django.db import transaction
from django.contrib import messages


@login_required
def post_edit(request, pk):
    post = get_object_or_404(Post, pk=pk)
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = PostForm(request.POST, instance=post)
        if form.is_valid():
            post = form.save(commit=False)
            post.save()
            return redirect('post_detail', pk=post.pk)
    else:
        form = PostForm(instance=Post)
    return render(request, 'rentadevapp/post_edit.html', {'rentadevapp': post_edit}, {'form': form})

Forms.py

class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Post
        fields = ('title', 'text',)

post_edit.html

{% extends 'rentadevapp/base.html' %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/post_edit.css' %}">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container"><br>
        <h2>New Post</h2><br>
        <form method="POST" class="post-form">{% csrf_token %}
            {{ form.as_p }}
            <button type="submit" class="save btn btn-default">Save</button>
        </form>
    </div>
</body>
{% endblock %}

Models.py

class Post(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    text = models.TextField()
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(
        default=timezone.now)
    updated_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=10, decimal_places=2, default='0')

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('title',)

    def created(self):
        self.created_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def updated(self):
        self.updated_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def publish(self):
        self.published_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

I'm pretty stuck and have spent a couple hours trying to figure this out. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Your form isn't returned to the template in the context.

In Django 1.11 or 2.2 the render function call in your view should return a dictionary of context variables as the third argument, but you've got two dictionaries. The 4th argument where you've got a dictionary containing the form is being passed as content_type which is then used in the HttpResponse so I'm quite surprised there isn't something strange happening or an error seen.

So you're doing;

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

What you need to do is;

context = {'form': form, 'rentadevapp': post_edit}

return render(request, 'rentadevapp/post_edit.html', context)

Prior to 1.10 render had a different signature, but the first three arguments of request, template_name, context have been that way since <1.8

Can't get forms to render in Django

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3 ACCPTED 2019-04-03 21:38:09

Can't get forms to render in Django

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1 answers

solution1 3 ACCPTED 2019-04-03 21:38:09

solution1
3 ACCPTED 2019-04-03 21:38:09