Django submit two forms within one view-CodePudding

I'm trying to submit two forms within one view. First, a user shares a URL through the first form. My program then renders some graphs and will ask the user at the end of the page to fill out a form and submit it. Here's how I'm trying to solve it:

views.py:

if request == "POST":
    if 'first-input-name' in request.POST: # or in request.POST.get('name')
        # do something
    elseif 'second-input-name' in request.POST: # or in request.POST.get('name')
        # do something else

template:

<input type="submit" name="first-input-name"/>
<input type="submit" name="second-input-name"/>

This is the approach I found in answers to similar questions. However, in my requests.POST I don't find the name of my input, and therefore I don't get the expected behavior.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

CodePudding user response：

I recommend a better and less difficult approach, that is to create different action urls with related functions:

In template:

<form action="{% url 'view-1' %}">
    <input type="submit" name="first-input-name"/>
    # other...
</form>
<form action="{% url 'view-2' %}">
    <input type="submit" name="second-input-name"/>
    # other...
</form>

In urls:

path(first/, first_view, name="view-1"),
path(second/, second_view, name="view-2"),

In views:

def first_view(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        #do something...

def second_view(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        #do something...

CodePudding user response：

You can just have one form with two fields to reduce code complexity. And do the below

def single_view(request):
  if request.method == "POST":
    # i also advice you use underscore(AKA snake_case) instead of hyphens
    first_input_name = request.POST.get("first_input_name")
    second_input_name = request.POST.get("second_input_name")

This also mean in your inputs you will have value="first_input_name" and value="second_input_name" in your inputs