So I thought when I press submit on the form (login page), that it would trigger my loginPage View and hit the request.POST == 'Method' becuase the form method is post but it is not doing this and I cannot login. Bit confused since this worked before and I haven't touched it since. Any ideas guys?

I have a html login page called login_register.html. Below,

<form method="POST" action=""> 
    {% csrf_token %}
    <div >
        <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" autocomplete="off"></input>&nbsp;
        
        <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password" autocomplete="off"></input>&nbsp;  

        <input type="submit"  value="login"></input>&nbsp;
    </div>
</form>

I have the urls.py file as well. Below,

path('login/', views.loginPage, name='login'),

And lastly, I have the View. Below,

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

def loginPage(request):
    
        if request.method == 'POST':
            username = request.POST.get('username')
            password = request.POST.get('password')
    
            try:
                user = User.objects.get(username = user)
            except:
                print("Error - user / password incorrect, does not exist.")
    
            user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
            if user is not None:
                login(request, user)
                return redirect('home')
            else:
                print("User does not exist.")
    
        return render(request, 'base/login_register.html')

CodePudding user response：

You should complete the action attribute in the form:

<form method="POST" action="{% url 'login' %}"> 

Note: the URL name can also be 'appname:login'. It depends on your URL setup.

CodePudding user response：

I ended up solving the issue. The search bar component was causing the issue. After playing around with it, I ended up moved it around in the folder and now it all works. I think this is the result because before it was in the main.html where everything was static like links text etc. I moved it into my home.html where everything is dynamic and now it works.

Thanks everyone for your help. This was quite an odd one.