Django 3 : Create a Django form

Django forms work with an object that inherits from the Form class. This object will handle much of the work we have done manually in the previous post.

Step 1 : Add the following URL to your urls.py file:

path('create-profile-forms', views.create_profile_forms, name="create_profile_forms"),

Step 2 : We will create our view in the views.py file with the following lines:

from django.shortcuts import render
from myproject.models import UserProfile
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django import forms


class Form_inscription(forms.Form):  
    name = forms.CharField(label="Name", max_length=30)
    login      = forms.CharField(label="Login", max_length=30)
    password   = forms.CharField(label="Password", widget=forms.PasswordInput)
def create_profile_forms(request):
    if request.POST:
        form = Form_inscription(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            name          = form.cleaned_data['name']
            login         = form.cleaned_data['login']
            password      = form.cleaned_data['password']
            new_profile = UserProfile(name=name, login=login, password=password)
            new_profile.save()
            return HttpResponse("UserProfile added")
        else:
            return render(request, 'create_profile_forms.html', {'form' : form})
    else:
        form = Form_inscription()
        return render(request, 'create_profile_forms.html', {'form' : form})

Step 3 : We set the template for this view. The template will be much shorter. The following is our template in template/create_profile_forms.html

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title_html %}
    Create Profile
{% endblock %}
{% block h1 %}
    Create Profile
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
    <form method="post" action="{% url "create_profile_forms" %}" >
    {% csrf_token %}
        <table>
        {{ form.as_table }}
        </table>
    <p><input type="submit" value="Create" /></p>
  </form>
{% endblock %}

Step 4 : Now start the development server with the python manage.py runserver command and open http://127.0.0.1:8000/create-profile-forms in your browser.