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    <p>I hope you are familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods" rel="nofollow">HTTP methods</a> like GET and POST.</p> <p><code>request</code> object represents a single request by any user agent. So it can be a request that's sent from browser from you when you browse a particular page or from a crawler from a search engine. Read more about request <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#httprequest-objects" rel="nofollow">here</a></p> <p><code>request.POST</code> is an attribute of this <code>request</code> object, it's a <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#querydict-objects" rel="nofollow">QueryDict</a> (much similar to a normal Python dict). It contains the HTTP POST parameters that are sent to your view.</p> <p>In short in your example:</p> <pre><code>def create(request): if request.POST: # check if the request is POST request and it contains any parameter form = ArticleForm(request.POST) # then pass all those parameters to the form if form.is_valid: # process the form to check if it's valid form.save() # save the data if it's valid else: form = ArticleForm() # if not valid data, initialize an new / empty form args = {} # create a dict to pass to the template args.update(csrf(request)) # add the CSRF token args['form'] = form # add the 'form' above to the 'args' dict return render_to_response('create_article.html', args) # pass that dict to template </code></pre> <p>Not so sure why you have this example, normally I would do the last part like this:</p> <pre><code>def create(request): .... your code .... else: form = ArticleForm() return render(request, 'create_article.html', { form: form }) </code></pre> <p>Hope it helps.</p>
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    1. POwhat exactly does django request.POST do and how to use it?
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    1. COCheck my edited answer
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    2. COYea okay perfect, I just realized that what you did is a lot better.. okay so the last question would be, suppose the Article model has a field called name = models.CharField(max_length=20), is there a way for me to get / access what the user entered for that particular section of the form? Suppose I want to get the name and see if the name already exists in my database, how would I go about doing so?
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    3. COYes you can get earlier in your view by using `request.POST.get('name', '')` or check it in your form, use the form is cleaner.
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