Question

I’m having an error where I am not sure what caused it.

Here is the error:

Exception Type:     OperationalError Exception Value:     (1054, 'Unknown column 'user_id' in 'field list'') 

Does anyone know why I am getting this error? I can’t figure it out. Everything seems to be fine.

My view code is below:

if 'login' in request.session:     t = request.POST.get('title', '')     d = request.POST.get('description', '')     fid = request.session['login']     fuser = User.objects.get(id=fid)     i = Idea(user=fuser, title=t, description=d, num_votes=1)     i.save()     return HttpResponse('true', mimetype='text/plain') else:     return HttpResponse('false', mimetype='text/plain') 

I appreciate any help! Thanks!

Edit: Also a side question. Do I use objects.get(id= or objects.get(pk= ? If I use a primary key, do I need to declare an id field or an index in the model?

Edit: Here are the relevant models:

class User (models.Model):     first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)     last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)     email = models.CharField(max_length=200)     password = models.CharField(max_length=200)  class Idea (models.Model):     user = models.ForeignKey(User)     title = models.CharField(max_length=200)     description = models.CharField(max_length=255)     num_votes = models.IntegerField() 

Answer 1

You’ll have to show your models to get real help, but it looks like your Idea table doesn’t have a user_id column? Did you modify the SQL table structure?