I have had the same problem for quite some time and have been trying different solutions but nothing is working. I have seen different examples here on the website, but most of them are addressing older versions of Django. I have tried such solutions, but nothing is workin. The problem is as addressed by the title,
" A {% csrf_token %} was used in a template, but the context did not provide the value. This is usually caused by not using RequestContext. "
I have tried to add RequestContext(request) to my code instead of writing {'form': 'form'} but it didn't work out.
I have tried to use HttpResponse() instead of render_to_response in my urls' views, but didn't work out as well.
This is the for my original views.py before I alter anything!
def ask_page_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = Ask_Page_Form(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
pass # does nothing, just trigger the validation
else:
form = Ask_Page_Form()
return render(request, "ask.html", {'form': form })
This is the views.py when I have added the RequestContext()
def ask_page_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = Ask_Page_Form(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
pass
else:
form = Ask_Page_Form()
return renderto('ask.html', context_instance = RequestContext(request))
This is the forms.py that I am using:
from django import forms
class Ask_Page_Form(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField(
max_length=30,
widget=forms.TextInput(
attrs={
'placeholder': 'Write your name here',
'class': 'ask-page-input',
'label': 'Student Name'
}
))
email = forms.EmailField(
max_length=254,
widget=forms.EmailInput(
attrs={
'placeholder': 'Write your Email here',
'class': 'ask-page-input',
'label': 'Email'
}
))
subject = forms.CharField(
max_length=50,
widget = forms.TextInput(
attrs={
'placeholder': 'Write your Question or Related Subject here',
'class': 'ask-page-input',
'label': 'Subject'
}
))
message = forms.CharField(
max_length=2000,
widget=forms.Textarea(
attrs={
'placeholder': 'Write your message here',
'class': 'ask-page-input',
'label': 'Message'
}
))
source = forms.CharField( # A hidden input for internal use
max_length=50, # tell from which page the user sent the message
widget=forms.HiddenInput()
)
def clean(self):
cleaned_data = super(Ask_Page_Form, self).clean()
name = cleaned_data.get('name')
email = cleaned_data.get('email')
subject = cleaned_data.get('subject')
message = cleaned_data.get('message')
if not name and not email and not subject and not message:
raise forms.ValidationError('You have to write something!')
This is the HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Physics Quizzes Ask</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
</form>
</body>
</html>I would like to have four input fields where the user can type whatever question that he/ she thinks about and then send it with a submit button to the admin's email. But the fields are not showing up and only the button does. Thank you :)
In order to generate the form you need to call the view:
html:
<a href="/your_app_name/ask_page_view">create form</a>
<form method="POST">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>
your_app's urls.py:
url(r'ask_page_view/$', views.ask_page_view),
view.py:
from django.template.context_processors import csrf
def ask_page_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = Ask_Page_Form(request.POST)
if form.is_valid(): # here you validate the created form
pass # does nothing, just trigger the validation
else:
form = Ask_Page_Form() # here you create a new form
args = {}
args.update(csrf(request))
args['form'] = form
return render(request, "ask.html", args)