Django / HTML Submit button redirecting to the wrong page
Question
I am trying to make a registration form with Django & HTML and I am following this tutorial: Video
2:45:00 into the video, I do the exact same steps as him, even though the only difference in my code is related to my previous question: My previous thread
This is my HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>Registration</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="register" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<input type="text" name="first_name" placeholder="First Name"><br>
<input type="text" name="last_name" placeholder="Last Name"><br>
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username"><br>
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email"><br>
<input type="password" name="password1" placeholder="Password"><br>
<input type="password" name="password2" placeholder="Confirm Password"><br>
<input type="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
and this is my views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib.auth.models import User, auth
def register(request):
if (request.method == 'post'):
first_name = request.POST['first_name']
last_name = request.POST['last_name']
username = request.POST['username']
password1 = request.POST['password1']
password2 = request.POST['password2']
email = request.POST['email']
user = User.objects.create_user(username=username, password=password1, email=email, first_name=first_name, last_name=last_name)
user.save()
print('user created')
return redirect('')
else:
return render(request, 'register.html')
However, it seems that when I press "Submit", instead of the button actually reading the views.py code and check the IF statement, it just redirects me to localhost:8000/account/register/register, which is completely wrong, such as shown here: Imgur link
I am unsure of what I am doing wrong, and why my code is acting differently even though I am doing exactly what the tutorial guy is doing in his video?
Any help would be much appreciated.
1 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2019-10-24 19:30:26
His code is simply wrong. You can't just put a view name in the action attribute like that; it needs to be an actual path. Since your URL is "/account/register", that's what you should use.
But a decent tutorial would have introduced the {% url %} tag. And, in fact, a decent tutorial would have used Django forms here; he seems to have completely neglected to think about validation, which is pretty inexcusable. I'd recommend finding a different tutorial.
(Note, you've made errors yourself in copying his code; in the view where you check request.method it must be "POST", not "post".)
solution2
-1 2019-10-24 19:30:06
The solution can be following:
if (request.method == '**POST**'):
return redirect('**/**')
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