Question

I started using the Django today, and tried building a html form

the code for views.py is

def home(request): 
    t = get_template('home.html')
    html = t.render(Context({ "GetLabel": 'Welcome to the SPACE program.',
                              "GetInput": '',
                              "Next": './get_machine' }))
    return HttpResponse(html)     

def get_machine(request):
    t = get_template('home.html')
    html = t.render(Context({ "GetLabel": 'Enter the name of the machine: ',
                              "GetInput": '<input type="text" name="machine_name">',
                              "Next": './get_beamlines'}))
    return HttpResponse(html)

def get_beamlines(request):
    machine_name = request.POST["machine_name"] 
    Context({ "GetLabel": 'Machine already installed<br> Overwrite Existing file',
                  "GetInput": '<select name="check" >  <option value="Yes">Yes</option>    <option value="No">No</option> </select>',
                  "Next": './get_beamline' })
    t = get_template('home.html')
    html = t.render(Context({"GetLabel": 'Enter the number of beamlines: ',
                             "GetInput": '<input type="text" name="beamline_no"',
                             "Key":'Machine Name: ',
                             "Value": machine_name,
                             "Next": './get_beamline_name'}))
    return HttpResponse(html)

It goes like this; Now I don’t know how to proceed further to get the name of the beamlines(if more than 1)

I’m a novice to django, please correct me if I am wrong.

Is there any other better way of doing the same.

Note: finally, I want to write all the user inputs to an xml file.
I have done the same with the normal python program, by getting the user inputs form raw_imput()

Answer 1

Some basics about forms are covered in tutorial, you might also want to use forms framework available within Django.