Question

I have in the html file a button defined as ;

<input type="submit" value="Log In" name="login_button" style="width: 109px; "/>

This button is on the sample.com . USer comes and clicking on the this button, then current web page, http://127.0.0.1:8000/sample,is changed to the http://127.0.0.1:8000/sample2, defined on the login.html. For this reason, I have done ;

def auth(request):
  if 'login_button' in request.POST:
    // redirect the web page to the sample2.com
  return render_to_response('login.html', {} )

I have tried to redirect("http://127.0.0.1:8000/sample2), but it is not worked. How can I go to another page.

Other web page defined on the this function

  def message(request):
          current_date_T = Template ("<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\
                                {{Date|truncatewords:\"8\"}}\
                            </p>")

          # --
          return HttpResponse(html)

url file

  urlpatterns = patterns('',
            ('^sample2/$', message),
            ('^sample/$', auth),
  )

page opened first is sample, in it there is a button. Sample2 will be called after button on the sample is clicked.

Answer 1

First of all define names to your urls:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url('^sample2/$', message, name="message_view"),
    url('^sample/$', authentication, name="auth_view"),
)

Then use url reverse resolution technique to get the url of a view using name of url:

def auth(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        // redirect the web page to the sample2.com
        return redirect(reverse('message_view'))
    return render_to_response('login.html', {} )

I don’t know what is the purpose of redirect here. But thats how it works.