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Forms are IMO, most misunderstood, and underdocumentated feature of Django. A from is not just a representation of a HTML. A form is, 0. a representation of a
by shabda 17y ago
Forms are IMO, most misunderstood, and underdocumentated feature of Django. A from is not just a representation of a HTML.
A form is,
0. a representation of a HTML form.
1. Knows how to validate and sanitize that data.
2. Know what to do with the data. In my apps, a lot of logic
is in forms, (which people generally put in views.)
Its written by me, but I think is explains some interesting ways to use forms which people miss and do the hard way.
http://uswaretech.com/blog/2010/01/doing-things-with-django-forms/ http://uswaretech.com/blog/2010/01/doing-things-with-django-...