Question

I’m making a game link site, where users can post links to their
favorite web game.
When people post games they are supposed to check what category the
game falls into.
I decided to allow many categories for each game since some games can
fall into many categories.
So the question is, how do I handle this in my view?
And how can I show it as Checkboxes, where at least one has to be
checked?
And how can I show this as checkboxes in the Admin as well?

Here is the code

Models:

class Category(models.Model): 
        category = models.CharField(max_length=200) 
        def __unicode__(self): 
                return self.category 
class Game(models.Model): 
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200) 
    url = models.CharField(max_length=200) 
    poster = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='game_poster_set') 
    postdate = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now) 
    cats = models.ManyToManyField(Category) 
    hits = models.IntegerField(default=0) 
    post = models.BooleanField(default=False) 

---

Views:

def submit(request): 
        form = GameForm(request.POST or None) 
        if form.is_valid(): 
                game = form.save(commit=False) 
                game.poster = request.user 
                game.save() 
                next = reverse('gamesite.games.views.favorites') 
                return HttpResponseRedirect(next) 
        return render_to_response( 
        'games/submit.html', 
        {'form': form}, 
        context_instance = RequestContext(request),)

---

Forms:

class GameForm(forms.ModelForm): 
        name = forms.CharField(max_length=15, label='Name') 
        url = forms.URLField(label='URL', initial='http://') 
        class Meta: 
                model = Game 
                fields = ('name','url')

Thanks!

Answer 1

class GameForm(forms.ModelForm): 
        name = forms.CharField(max_length=15, label='Name') 
        url = forms.URLField(label='URL', initial='http://') 
        cats = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
            queryset=Category.objects.all(),
            widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,
            required=True)

        class Meta: 
                model = Game 
                fields = ('name','url','cats')

that should fix your view, but i’m not sure about the admin. still looking… will edit if i find anything.