I'm making a registration system for my django website and this registration form isn't working. I don't know why, I fill out the form and it does nothing. It doesn't redirect to my register_success page. Here is my code so you can help diagnose the issue.
Views.py:
def register_user(request):
if request.method == 'post':
form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/register_success')
args = {}
args.update(csrf(request))
args['form'] = UserCreationForm()
print(args)
return render_to_response('register.html', args)
def register_success(request):
return render_to_response('register_success.html')
Register.html:
<html>
<body>
{% block content %}
<h2>Register</h2>
<form action="/accounts/register/" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="submit" value="Register"/>
</form>
{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>
Register_success.html:
<html>
<body>
{% block content %}
<h2>You have registered</h2>
<p>Click <a href="/accounts/login/">here</a> to login.</p>
{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>
The problem is that you are always creating a blank form. This means that you will not see any errors in your form.
args['form'] = UserCreationForm()
You can fix this by changing your view as follows.
from django.shortcuts import render
def register_user(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/accounts/register_success')
else:
form = UserCreationForm()
return render(request, 'register.html', {'form': form})
Note that the first if statement should be if request.method == 'POST':, as spotted by yedpodtrzitko in their answer. I've switched from the deprecated render_to_response to render, which simplifies things. I recommend you update your success view as well.
def register_success(request):
return render(request, 'register_success.html')