Question

Not sure whats going on. I added a contact form to a website(it works) but when i tied it to my base.html i noticed that my menu isnt working (#global variable) on this particular site (html looks like there is no menu at all, just div surrounding it). It buggs only in contact_form.html which contains my form. Any idea why would this happen?

forms.py

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(required=False, label='Your name')
    email = forms.EmailField(label='E-mail address')
    subject = forms.CharField(label='Subject')
    phone = forms.CharField(required=False, label='Phone number')
    message = forms.CharField(label='Your message')

views.py

def contact(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            cd = form.cleaned_data
            message = cd['message']
        # construct the message body from the form's cleaned data
        body = """\
        from: %s
        name: %s
        phone: %s
        message: %s""" % (cd['email'], cd['name'], cd['phone'], cd['message'])
        send_mail(
                  cd['subject'], #subject is here
                  body, #here is the message
                  settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL, # from
                  [settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL] # to
        )
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/contact/thanks/')
    else:
        form = ContactForm()
    csrf_form = {'form': form}
    csrf_form.update(csrf(request))
    return render_to_response('contact_form.html',csrf_form)

Answer 1

aganders3 was right.

i think i found my solution here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/

fixed the code above so it looks like:

return render_to_response('contact_form.html',
                          csrf_form,
                          context_instance=RequestContext(request)
                          )

Everything works as it supposed to now.