Trying to link my HTML form to a view function in Django

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I've been trying to create a user registration page and have gotten the form itself and the render for the form set up. I have also gotten the form to save user input as POST, but haven't been able to send that info to a view function I have created to save that info to a database.

Here is my html/css template form:(userinfo.html)

<div>
    {% block content %}
    <form action="register" method="post" name="Userinfo" id="Userinfo">
    <label for="fname">First Name</label>
    {% csrf_token %}
    <input type="text" id="fname" name="firstname" placeholder="Your first name..">
    <label for="lname">Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" id="lname" name="lastname" placeholder="Your last name..">

    <label for="DOB">Date Of Birth</label>
    <input type="text" id="DOB" name="DOB" placeholder="The Date you were born">

    <label for="Email">Email Address</label>
    <input type="text" id="Email" name="Email" placeholder="Your email address">

    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </form>
    {% endblock %}
</div>

The name of my view function is register and here it is:(views.py)

def register(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        first_name = request.POST['first_name'],
        last_name = request.POST['last_name'],
        date_of_birth = request.POST['DOB'],
        email = request.POST['email']
        newuser= User.objects.create_user(first_name=first_name,last_name=last_name, email=email)
        newuser.save()
        print('user created')
        return redirect('/home')
    else:
        return render(request,'register.html')

This is supposed to save the user input into Django's user database table.

How would I go about linking the form to the view I have set up?

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2 Answers

Assuming the name of your register view is also register, i.e.,

# urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('register', views.register, name='register'),
    ...
]

then you can just change the form tag as follows:

<form action="{% url 'register' %}" method="post" name="Userinfo" id="Userinfo">

    <label for="fname">First Name</label>
    {% csrf_token %}
    <input type="text" id="fname" name="first_name" placeholder="Your first name..">
    <label for="lname">Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" id="lname" name="last_name" placeholder="Your last name..">

    ...

  </form>

Note the change in the name for the inputs to first_name and last_name so the match your request.POST['first_name'] and request.POST['last_name']

The {% url 'register' %} tells Django to look for a url path that has a view with the name register.

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Notice, that firstname from form is not the same as first_name you seek in views. You have to fetch exactly the same data, as you place in html. You can always

print(request.POST)

to see what the POST dictionary has :)

With that fixed it should work for now.

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