Python/Django Development 8 of 12 - Using Web/Django form to add records to database
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Important Links and Notes:
(1) "Tango with Django" Course Chapter:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book17...
The basic steps involved in creating a form and allowing users to enter data via the form is as follows.
(1) If you haven’t already got one, create a forms.py file within your Django application’s directory to store form-related classes.
(2) Create a ModelForm class for each model that you wish to represent as a form.
(3) Customise the forms as you desire.
(4) Create or update a view to handle the form - including displaying the form,
saving the form data, and flagging up errors which may occur when the user enters incorrect data
(or no data at all) in the form.
(5) Create or update a template to display the form.
(6) Add a urlpattern to map to the new view (if you created a new one). urls.py
This workflow is a bit more complicated than previous workflows,
and the views that we have to construct have a lot more complexity as well.
However, once you undertake the process a few times it will be pretty clear how everything pieces together.