Question

In Django I’m trying to write a ModelForm for a ContactForm and when I try to load the page containing the form it says that it doesn’t exist. Then when I try to render the other form I had previously written it says that

Caught AttributeError while rendering: 'CashtextsForm' object has no attribute 'subject'

‘Subject’ is a field in the form that I was trying to render in ContactForm. So is there some certain order I have to list them in models.py? Here’s that code:

# Create your models here.
from django.db import models
from django.forms import ModelForm

class Cashtexts(models.Model):
    cashTexts = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) #change me to a website filter
    superPoints = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)#chance to "superPoints _Username"
    varolo = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    swagbucks = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    neobux = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    topline = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    Paidviewpoint = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    cashcrate = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)


    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.cashcode

class Contact(models.Model):
    sender = models.EmailField()
    subject = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    message = models.TextField()

class CashtextsForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Cashtexts

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.subject


class ContactForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Contact

I previously had them arranged as Model-Modelform, Model-Modelform but hereit shows them as the way I now currently have them.

Also Is there any advantages to write just forms? Right now I’m more comfortable writing model forms over forms(I dont imagine they are much differnt) but if I only wrote model forms would I be missing out on features? So is there anything I missed on how t write multiple forms in models.py or did I have them written worng? or can i not create them via the command syncdb?

Answer 1

The __unicode__(self) method should be part of your Contact class

class Contact(models.Model):
    sender = models.EmailField()
    subject = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    message = models.TextField()

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.subject

It doens’t make sense inside CashtextsForm as that does not “know” a subject attribute.