I am new to Django and pretty new to Ajax. I am working on a project where I need to integrate the two. I believe that I understand the principles behind them both, but have not found a good explanation of the two together.
Could someone give me a quick explanation of how the codebase must change with the two of them integrating together?
For example, can I still use the HttpResponse with Ajax, or do my responses have to change with the use of Ajax? If so, could you please provide an example of how the responses to the requests must change? If it makes any difference, the data I am returning is JSON.
Even though this isn't entirely in the SO spirit, I love this question, because I had the same trouble when I started, so I'll give you a quick guide. Obviously you don't understand the principles behind them (don't take it as an offense, but if you did you wouldn't be asking).
Django is server-side. It means, say a client goes to a URL, you have a function inside views that renders what he sees and returns a response in HTML. Let's break it up into examples:
views.py:
def hello(request):
return HttpResponse('Hello World!')
def home(request):
return render_to_response('index.html', {'variable': 'world'})
index.html:
<h1>Hello {{ variable }}, welcome to my awesome site</h1>
urls.py:
url(r'^hello/', 'myapp.views.hello'),
url(r'^home/', 'myapp.views.home'),
That's an example of the simplest of usages. Going to 127.0.0.1:8000/hello means a request to the hello() function, going to 127.0.0.1:8000/home will return the index.html and replace all the variables as asked (you probably know all this by now).
Now let's talk about AJAX. AJAX calls are client-side code that does asynchronous requests. That sounds complicated, but it simply means it does a request for you in the background and then handles the response. So when you do an AJAX call for some URL, you get the same data you would get as a user going to that place.
For example, an AJAX call to 127.0.0.1:8000/hello will return the same thing it would as if you visited it. Only this time, you have it inside a JavaScript function and you can deal with it however you'd like. Let's look at a simple use case:
$.ajax({
url: '127.0.0.1:8000/hello',
type: 'get', // This is the default though, you don't actually need to always mention it
success: function(data) {
alert(data);
},
failure: function(data) {
alert('Got an error dude');
}
});
The general process is this:
The call goes to the URL 127.0.0.1:8000/hello as if you opened a new tab and did it yourself.
If it succeeds (status code 200), do the function for success, which will alert the data received.
If fails, do a different function.
Now what would happen here? You would get an alert with 'hello world' in it. What happens if you do an AJAX call to home? Same thing, you'll get an alert stating <h1>Hello world, welcome to my awesome site</h1>.
In other words - there's nothing new about AJAX calls. They are just a way for you to let the user get data and information without leaving the page, and it makes for a smooth and very neat design of your website. A few guidelines you should take note of:
Learn jQuery. I cannot stress this enough. You're gonna have to understand it a little to know how to handle the data you receive. You'll also need to understand some basic JavaScript syntax (not far from python, you'll get used to it). I strongly recommend Envato's video tutorials for jQuery, they are great and will put you on the right path.
When to use JSON?. You're going to see a lot of examples where the data sent by the Django views is in JSON. I didn't go into detail on that, because it isn't important how to do it (there are plenty of explanations abound) and a lot more important when. And the answer to that is - JSON data is serialized data. That is, data you can manipulate. Like I mentioned, an AJAX call will fetch the response as if the user did it himself. Now say you don't want to mess with all the html, and instead want to send data (a list of objects perhaps). JSON is good for this, because it sends it as an object (JSON data looks like a python dictionary), and then you can iterate over it or do something else that removes the need to sift through useless html.
Add it last. When you build a web app and want to implement AJAX - do yourself a favor. First, build the entire app completely devoid of any AJAX. See that everything is working. Then, and only then, start writing the AJAX calls. That's a good process that helps you learn a lot as well.
Use chrome's developer tools. Since AJAX calls are done in the background it's sometimes very hard to debug them. You should use the chrome developer tools (or similar tools such as firebug) and console.log things to debug. I won't explain in detail, just google around and find out about it. It would be very helpful to you.
CSRF awareness. Finally, remember that post requests in Django require the csrf_token. With AJAX calls, a lot of times you'd like to send data without refreshing the page. You'll probably face some trouble before you'd finally remember that - wait, you forgot to send the csrf_token. This is a known beginner roadblock in AJAX-Django integration, but after you learn how to make it play nice, it's easy as pie.
That's everything that comes to my head. It's a vast subject, but yeah, there's probably not enough examples out there. Just work your way there, slowly, you'll get it eventually.
Further from yuvi's excellent answer, I would like to add a small specific example on how to deal with this within Django (beyond any js that will be used). The example uses AjaxableResponseMixin and assumes an Author model.
import json
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView
from myapp.models import Author
class AjaxableResponseMixin(object):
"""
Mixin to add AJAX support to a form.
Must be used with an object-based FormView (e.g. CreateView)
"""
def render_to_json_response(self, context, **response_kwargs):
data = json.dumps(context)
response_kwargs['content_type'] = 'application/json'
return HttpResponse(data, **response_kwargs)
def form_invalid(self, form):
response = super(AjaxableResponseMixin, self).form_invalid(form)
if self.request.is_ajax():
return self.render_to_json_response(form.errors, status=400)
else:
return response
def form_valid(self, form):
# We make sure to call the parent's form_valid() method because
# it might do some processing (in the case of CreateView, it will
# call form.save() for example).
response = super(AjaxableResponseMixin, self).form_valid(form)
if self.request.is_ajax():
data = {
'pk': self.object.pk,
}
return self.render_to_json_response(data)
else:
return response
class AuthorCreate(AjaxableResponseMixin, CreateView):
model = Author
fields = ['name']
Source: Django documentation, Form handling with class-based views
The link to version 1.6 of Django is no longer available updated to version 1.11
I am writing this because the accepted answer is pretty old, it needs a refresher.
So this is how I would integrate Ajax with Django in 2019 :) And lets take a real example of when we would need Ajax :-
Lets say I have a model with registered usernames and with the help of Ajax I wanna know if a given username exists.
html:
<p id="response_msg"></p>
<form id="username_exists_form" method='GET'>
Name: <input type="username" name="username" />
<button type='submit'> Check </button>
</form>
ajax:
$('#username_exists_form').on('submit',function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var username = $(this).find('input').val();
$.get('/exists/',
{'username': username},
function(response){ $('#response_msg').text(response.msg); }
);
});
urls.py:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('exists/', views.username_exists, name='exists'),
]
views.py:
def username_exists(request):
data = {'msg':''}
if request.method == 'GET':
username = request.GET.get('username').lower()
exists = Usernames.objects.filter(name=username).exists()
data['msg'] = username
data['msg'] += ' already exists.' if exists else ' does not exists.'
return JsonResponse(data)
Also render_to_response which is deprecated and has been replaced by render and from Django 1.7 onwards instead of HttpResponse we use JsonResponse for ajax response. Because it comes with a JSON encoder, so you don’t need to serialize the data before returning the response object but HttpResponse is not deprecated.
Simple and Nice. You don't have to change your views. Bjax handles all your links. Check this out:
Bjax
Usage:
<script src="bjax.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="bjax.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Finally, include this in the HEAD of your html:
$('a').bjax();
For more settings, checkout demo here:
Bjax Demo
AJAX is the best way to do asynchronous tasks. Making asynchronous calls is something common in use in any website building. We will take a short example to learn how we can implement AJAX in Django. We need to use jQuery so as to write less javascript.
This is Contact example, which is the simplest example, I am using to explain the basics of AJAX and its implementation in Django. We will be making POST request in this example. I am following one of the example of this post: https://djangopy.org/learn/step-up-guide-to-implement-ajax-in-django
models.py
Let's first create the model of Contact, having basic details.
from django.db import models
class Contact(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
email = models.EmailField()
message = models.TextField()
timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)
def __str__(self):
return self.name
forms.py
Create the form for the above model.
from django import forms
from .models import Contact
class ContactForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Contact
exclude = ["timestamp", ]
views.py
The views look similar to the basic function-based create view, but instead of returning with render, we are using JsonResponse response.
from django.http import JsonResponse
from .forms import ContactForm
def postContact(request):
if request.method == "POST" and request.is_ajax():
form = ContactForm(request.POST)
form.save()
return JsonResponse({"success":True}, status=200)
return JsonResponse({"success":False}, status=400)
urls.py
Let's create the route of the above view.
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from app_1 import views as app1
urlpatterns = [
path('ajax/contact', app1.postContact, name ='contact_submit'),
]
template
Moving to frontend section, render the form which was created above enclosing form tag along with csrf_token and submit button. Note that we have included the jquery library.
<form id = "contactForm" method= "POST">{% csrf_token %}
{{ contactForm.as_p }}
<input type="submit" name="contact-submit" class="btn btn-primary" />
</form>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Javascript
Let's now talk about javascript part, on the form submit we are making ajax request of type POST, taking the form data and sending to the server side.
$("#contactForm").submit(function(e){
// prevent from normal form behaviour
e.preventDefault();
// serialize the form data
var serializedData = $(this).serialize();
$.ajax({
type : 'POST',
url : "{% url 'contact_submit' %}",
data : serializedData,
success : function(response){
//reset the form after successful submit
$("#contactForm")[0].reset();
},
error : function(response){
console.log(response)
}
});
});
This is just a basic example to get started with AJAX with django, if you want to get dive with several more examples, you can go through this article: https://djangopy.org/learn/step-up-guide-to-implement-ajax-in-django
Easy ajax calls with Django
(26.10.2020)
This is in my opinion much cleaner and simpler than the correct answer. This one also includes how to add the csrftoken and using login_required methods with ajax.
The view
#login_required
def some_view(request):
"""Returns a json response to an ajax call. (request.user is available in view)"""
# Fetch the attributes from the request body
data_attribute = request.GET.get('some_attribute') # Make sure to use POST/GET correctly
# DO SOMETHING...
return JsonResponse(data={}, status=200)
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path('some-view-does-something/', views.some_view, name='doing-something'),
]
The ajax call
The ajax call is quite simple, but is sufficient for most cases. You can fetch some values and put them in the data object, then in the view depicted above you can fetch their values again via their names.
You can find the csrftoken function in django's documentation. Basically just copy it and make sure it is rendered before your ajax call so that the csrftoken variable is defined.
$.ajax({
url: "{% url 'doing-something' %}",
headers: {'X-CSRFToken': csrftoken},
data: {'some_attribute': some_value},
type: "GET",
dataType: 'json',
success: function (data) {
if (data) {
console.log(data);
// call function to do something with data
process_data_function(data);
}
}
});
Add HTML to current page with ajax
This might be a bit off topic but I have rarely seen this used and it is a great way to minimize window relocations as well as manual html string creation in javascript.
This is very similar to the one above but this time we are rendering html from the response without reloading the current window.
If you intended to render some kind of html from the data you would receive as a response to the ajax call, it might be easier to send a HttpResponse back from the view instead of a JsonResponse. That allows you to create html easily which can then be inserted into an element.
The view
# The login required part is of course optional
#login_required
def create_some_html(request):
"""In this particular example we are filtering some model by a constraint sent in by
ajax and creating html to send back for those models who match the search"""
# Fetch the attributes from the request body (sent in ajax data)
search_input = request.GET.get('search_input')
# Get some data that we want to render to the template
if search_input:
data = MyModel.objects.filter(name__contains=search_input) # Example
else:
data = []
# Creating an html string using template and some data
html_response = render_to_string('path/to/creation_template.html', context = {'models': data})
return HttpResponse(html_response, status=200)
The html creation template for view
creation_template.html
{% for model in models %}
<li class="xyz">{{ model.name }}</li>
{% endfor %}
urls.py
urlpatterns = [
path('get-html/', views.create_some_html, name='get-html'),
]
The main template and ajax call
This is the template where we want to add the data to. In this example in particular we have a search input and a button that sends the search input's value to the view. The view then sends a HttpResponse back displaying data matching the search that we can render inside an element.
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
<input id="search-input" placeholder="Type something..." value="">
<button id="add-html-button" class="btn btn-primary">Add Html</button>
<ul id="add-html-here">
<!-- This is where we want to render new html -->
</ul>
{% end block %}
{% block extra_js %}
<script>
// When button is pressed fetch inner html of ul
$("#add-html-button").on('click', function (e){
e.preventDefault();
let search_input = $('#search-input').val();
let target_element = $('#add-html-here');
$.ajax({
url: "{% url 'get-html' %}",
headers: {'X-CSRFToken': csrftoken},
data: {'search_input': search_input},
type: "GET",
dataType: 'html',
success: function (data) {
if (data) {
console.log(data);
// Add the http response to element
target_element.html(data);
}
}
});
})
</script>
{% endblock %}
I have tried to use AjaxableResponseMixin in my project, but had ended up with the following error message:
ImproperlyConfigured: No URL to redirect to. Either provide a url or define a get_absolute_url method on the Model.
That is because the CreateView will return a redirect response instead of returning a HttpResponse when you to send JSON request to the browser. So I have made some changes to the AjaxableResponseMixin. If the request is an ajax request, it will not call the super.form_valid method, just call the form.save() directly.
from django.http import JsonResponse
from django import forms
from django.db import models
class AjaxableResponseMixin(object):
success_return_code = 1
error_return_code = 0
"""
Mixin to add AJAX support to a form.
Must be used with an object-based FormView (e.g. CreateView)
"""
def form_invalid(self, form):
response = super(AjaxableResponseMixin, self).form_invalid(form)
if self.request.is_ajax():
form.errors.update({'result': self.error_return_code})
return JsonResponse(form.errors, status=400)
else:
return response
def form_valid(self, form):
# We make sure to call the parent's form_valid() method because
# it might do some processing (in the case of CreateView, it will
# call form.save() for example).
if self.request.is_ajax():
self.object = form.save()
data = {
'result': self.success_return_code
}
return JsonResponse(data)
else:
response = super(AjaxableResponseMixin, self).form_valid(form)
return response
class Product(models.Model):
name = models.CharField('product name', max_length=255)
class ProductAddForm(forms.ModelForm):
'''
Product add form
'''
class Meta:
model = Product
exclude = ['id']
class PriceUnitAddView(AjaxableResponseMixin, CreateView):
'''
Product add view
'''
model = Product
form_class = ProductAddForm
When we use Django:
Server ===> Client(Browser)
Send a page
When you click button and send the form,
----------------------------
Server <=== Client(Browser)
Give data back. (data in form will be lost)
Server ===> Client(Browser)
Send a page after doing sth with these data
----------------------------
If you want to keep old data, you can do it without Ajax. (Page will be refreshed)
Server ===> Client(Browser)
Send a page
Server <=== Client(Browser)
Give data back. (data in form will be lost)
Server ===> Client(Browser)
1. Send a page after doing sth with data
2. Insert data into form and make it like before.
After these thing, server will send a html page to client. It means that server do more work, however, the way to work is same.
Or you can do with Ajax (Page will be not refreshed)
--------------------------
<Initialization>
Server ===> Client(Browser) [from URL1]
Give a page
--------------------------
<Communication>
Server <=== Client(Browser)
Give data struct back but not to refresh the page.
Server ===> Client(Browser) [from URL2]
Give a data struct(such as JSON)
---------------------------------
If you use Ajax, you must do these:
Initial a HTML page using URL1 (we usually initial page by Django template). And then server send client a html page.
Use Ajax to communicate with server using URL2. And then server send client a data struct.
Django is different from Ajax. The reason for this is as follows:
The thing return to client is different. The case of Django is HTML page. The case of Ajax is data struct.
Django is good at creating something, but it only can create once, it cannot change anything. Django is like anime, consist of many picture. By contrast, Ajax is not good at creating sth but good at change sth in exist html page.
In my opinion, if you would like to use ajax everywhere. when you need to initial a page with data at first, you can use Django with Ajax. But in some case, you just need a static page without anything from server, you need not use Django template.
If you don't think Ajax is the best practice. you can use Django template to do everything, like anime.
(My English is not good)
I'm in the process of creating a small poll app with Django and the main page has a button that allows the user to create new polls and another one that allows them to delete polls.
My delete route should send the user to a confirmation page that would be located at /polls/:id/delete. When I type it in the URL it works but when I try to access the confirmation page via button click it sends me to the wrong URL.
I've tried changing information in the deletePoll class and in the Path but neither work.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
#this is my form on the page:
<form action="{% url 'polls:delete' pk=question.id %}"method="GET">
{% csrf_token %}
<input class="btn btn-default btn-danger" type="submit"value="Delete"/>
</form>
#this is my class inside of views.py
class PollDelete(DeleteView):
template_name = 'polls/delete.html'
# can specify success url
# url to redirect after sucessfully
# deleting object
def get_object(request):
question = get_object_or_404(Question, pk=question_id)
return render(request, 'polls/delete.html')
#this is my polls/urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views
app_name = 'polls'
urlpatterns = [
# ex: /polls/
path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
# ex: /polls/5/
path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
# ex: /polls/5/results/
path('<int:pk>/results/', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
# ex: /polls/5/vote/
path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
#path for delete
#Tried changing the format to /polls/delete/PK but it didn't work
path('<int:pk>/delete/', views.PollDelete.as_view(), name='delete'),
# path('createpoll/', views.createPoll, name='createPoll')
]
path('delete/<int:pk>', views.PollDelete.as_view(), name='delete')
paste this code to your urls.py. the action in your html recognizes delete/pk, you are throwing pk/delete/ to your url which does not return the proper url.
I am relatively new to Django and do not understand it in depth. For some reason even though everyone says that Django documentation is amazing, I do not understand it what so ever.
For some reason, I am not able to integrate a model, model and a view from 2 different apps into my home.html page.
What I am trying to do is to get a newsletter sign up, as a form. It is inside jobs app Jobs also include "Jobs" which I display on the home page and blog posts which I also want to display on my HTML home page.
I do not see a need to create a new app as it's not a model which I will be reusing a lot and ready solutions are not to my liking due to limitations.
I have tried to solve what is the problem and I finally realised that it's in the url.py file under urlpatterns.
Here are my code snipets:
project url.py
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf.urls.static import static
import jobs.views
import blog.views
import compound.views
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from markdownx import urls as markdownx
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', blog.views.all_blogs_on_home, name='home'),
path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
path('', include('jobs.urls')),
path('compound/', compound.views.index),
url(r'^markdownx/', include(markdownx))
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
blog urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views
from . import models
from django.conf.urls import url
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.allblogs, name='allblogs'),
path('<int:blog_title>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
]
This is how I combined 2 apps together before:
blog/views.py :
def all_blogs_on_home(request, template='jobs/home.html'):
context = {
'blogs': Blog.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date'),
'jobs': Job.objects.all(),
'get_email': get_email,
}
return render(request, template, context)
And this what I have for my views (the only way I found to integrate newsletter without creating a new app):
jobs/views.py :
def home(request):
jobs = Job.objects
return render(request, 'jobs/home.html', {'jobs': jobs})
def get_email(request):
# if this is a POST request we need to process the form data
if request.method == 'POST':
# create a form instance and populate it with data from the request:
form = SignupForm(request.POST)
# check whether it's valid:
if form.is_valid():
# process the data in form.cleaned_data as required
# ...
# redirect to a new URL:
return HttpResponseRedirect('/email-field/')
# if a GET (or any other method) we'll create a blank form
else:
form = SignupForm()
return render(request, 'jobs/home.html', {'form': form})
In home.html I simply add this:
{{ form }}
If I understand it correctly, you want to render two lists of models and a form using all_blogs_on_home view and jobs/home.html template.
To achieve that you should have something like this:
def all_blogs_on_home(request, template='jobs/home.html'):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = SignupForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
# Put form handling code here
return HttpResponseRedirect('/email-field/')
# if a GET (or any other method) we'll create a blank form
else:
form = SignupForm()
context = {
'blogs': Blog.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date'),
'jobs': Job.objects.all(),
'form': form,
}
return render(request, template, context)
In your template jobs/home.html just render blogs and jobs as before. And you can use {{ form.as_p }} or {{ form }} to render your form. Don't forget to add /email-field/ url to one of your urls.py files.
I want to execute my python code by onclick. I am getting result after running the server. My button is not working. Here is my code.
URL -
url(r'^index/$', index),
index.html-
<html>
<body>
<form action="/index/" method="GET">
<input type="submit" value="Click">
</form>
{{output}}
</body>
</html>
views.py -
from django.shortcuts import render, render_to_response
from pythoncode import mycode
def index(request):
if request.method=="GET":
py_obj=mycode.test_code(10)
py_obj.code()
return render(request, 'index.html', {"output":py_obj.a})
I created one more application to separate python code -
application name is python code and file name mycode
class test_code:
def __init__(self, a):
self.a=a
self.b=4
def code(self):
return self.a, self.b
please help me. I am new in Django. Thanks in advance
If you just want to click and display something on the fly on your page, you'll need JavaScript and AJAX. There is no need to create whole form just for one button. Remove your form completely, which closing tag is also wrong (read Brandon's comments).
You can use this snippet in your index.html:
<button id="myClickButton" type="button">Click</button>
<div id="myOutput"></div>
Now let's trigger something when clicking on the button:
$("#myClickButton").click(function() {
$.get("/output/", function(data) {
$("#myOutput").html(data);
}, "html");
});
The above code is jQuery. Please read the official documentation of jQuery. There is everything explained how to use the library.
Now let's go to your views.py.
def index(request):
return render(request, 'yourapp/index.html')
Remember to put your templates in a folder templates within your app. It should look like this:
--yourproject
|
|--yourapp
|----templates
|------yourapp
|--------index.html
Make another view in your views.py:
def output(request):
if request.is_ajax():
py_obj = mycode.test_code(10)
return render(request, 'yourapp/output.html', {'output': py_obj.a})
Your output.html can be like this:
<p>{{ output }}</p>
That's all. No header, no body, nothing. This code will be inserted per AJAX on the fly in index.html.
Now let's analyze your method code:
def code(self):
return self.a, self.b
Do you know what happens here? You can return only ONE value in a function. You think you're returning a and b as integers. Wrong! This method returns a tuple with two elements. This method will return (10, 4).
When you call this method in your index view it just returns this tuple, but you're not assigning it to a variable, so it will go with the wind. It's useless call.
I hope this gives you an idea how you can do it. If you don't want to use JavaScript (and AJAX) you can send your form per POST and make a distinction in your view:
def index(request):
if request.method == 'GET':
return render(request, 'yourapp/index.html', {'output': ''})
elif request.method == 'POST':
py_obj = mycode.test_code(10)
return render(request, 'yourapp/output.html', {'output': py_obj.a})
In this case you won't need the view output and output.html. You can use your index.html with the form inside.
I am new to django and have made a method:GET form with checkboxes/text boxes and a submit button. I want to change it to a method:POST form but keep getting the error that says:
Reason given for failure:
CSRF token missing or incorrect.
In general, this can occur when there is a genuine Cross Site Request Forgery, or when Django's CSRF mechanism has not been used correctly. For POST forms, you need to ensure:
Your browser is accepting cookies.
The view function uses RequestContext for the template, instead of Context.
In the template, there is a {% csrf_token %} template tag inside each POST form that targets an internal URL.
If you are not using CsrfViewMiddleware, then you must use csrf_protect on any views that use the csrf_token template tag, as well as those that accept the POST data.
I tried to change all the things that the debuger says to but I keep getting the same error. I would like to know if there are any other files that I need to change other than views.py, the template file(.html) and the settings.py file which are included here:
views.py:
from django.template import RequestContext, loader
from crunchApp.models import Filter
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.core.context_processors import csrf
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404
from django.http import Http404
def results(request):
c = {}
c.update(csrf(request))
return render_to_response('crunchApp/results.html', c)
template/test.html
<form name="myform" action="results" method = "post" >{% csrf_token %}
<fieldset>
<input type="checkbox" value="total_money" id = "money_check" name="check" /> Filter by Total Money</br>
</fieldset></form>
settings.py
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
)
You shouldn't need
c = {}
c.update(csrf(request))
but you do need context_instance=RequestContext(request), as in
render_to_response(<template>, <vars>, context_instance=RequestContext(request))