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POHow do I associate input to a Form with a Model in Django?
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copied!<p>In Django, how do I associate a Form with a Model so that data entered into the form are inserted into the database table associated with the Model? How do I save that user input to that database table?</p> <p>For example:</p> <pre><code>class PhoneNumber(models.Model): FirstName = models.CharField(max_length=30) LastName = models.CharField(max_length=30) PhoneNumber = models.CharField(max_length=20) class PhoneNumber(forms.Form): FirstName = forms.CharField(max_length=30) LastName = forms.CharField(max_length=30) PhoneNumber = forms.CharField(max_length=20) </code></pre> <p>I know there is a class for creating a form from the the model, but even there I'm unclear on how the data actually gets to the database. And I'd like to understand the inner workings before I move on to the time-savers. If there is a simple example of how this works in the docs, I've missed it.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>UPDATED: To be clear -- I do know about the ModelForm tool, I'm trying to figure out how to do this without that -- in part so I can better understand what it's doing in the first place.</p> <p>ANSWERED:</p> <p>With the help of the anwers, I arrived at this solution:</p> <p>Form definition:</p> <pre><code>class ThisForm(forms.Form) [various Field assignments] model = ThisModel() </code></pre> <p>Code in views to save entered data to database:</p> <pre><code>if request_method == 'POST': form = ThisForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): for key, value in form.cleaned_data.items(): setattr(form.model, key, value) form.model.save(form.model) </code></pre> <p>After this the data entered in the browser form was in the database table.</p> <p>Note that the call of the model's save() method required passage of the model itself as an argument. I have no idea why.</p> <p>CAVEAT: I'm a newbie. This succeeded in getting data from a browser to a database table, but God only knows what I've neglected or missed or outright broken along the way. ModelForm definitely seems like a much cleaner solution.</p>

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