Question

I have a simple form

<form name="input" action="" method="get">
Username: <input type="text" name="user" id = "xxx">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form> 

On view.py I want to write a function to get value that user input

def add(request):
if request.method =="POST":
       abc=request.args.get('xxx')

return render_to_response('myapp/addtour.html')

But it does not work. Please tell me how to do it in Google App Engine or Django

Answer 1

1: You’re checking for POST while your form uses GET — the if block will never fire.

2: xxx is an HTML ID – it has nothing to do with GET/POST. The name parameter does. So request.GET.get('user') – not 'xxx'