how to pass value from html to view in django? - html

Question

I have made this HTML code:
<h3>your major is {{user.userprofile.major}}</h3>
This will correctly show the major on the webpage, but I want to use this string to get something from another table in view.
How would I pass this string to view?
edit:
Here is my view.py
def dashboardView(request):
obj = BooksFile.objects.all()
query = BooksFile.objects.filter(book_major='cs)
return render(request, 'dashboard.html', {'books': obj, 'major': query})
def registerView(request):
if request.method == "POST":
form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
profile_form = UserProfileForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid() and profile_form.is_valid():
user = form.save()
profile = profile_form.save(commit=False)
profile.user = user
profile.save()
return redirect('login_url')
else:
form = UserCreationForm()
profile_form = UserProfileForm()
context = {'form': form, 'profile_form': profile_form}
return render(request, 'registration/register.html', context)
here is my template:
{% extends 'index.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Welcome, {{user.username}}</h1>
<h2>Your major is {{user.userprofile.major}}</h2>
{% for book in books %}
<h3>Your book name is {{book.book_name}}</h3>
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}
I am trying to show the book names from the booksfile table by corresponding major that user has. Right its showing the books that has "cs" attribute because I manually put "cs" in the get function in view. I am trying to send the major string from template to view, so that I can put what ever the user's major is in the get function. Or is there any other way to do it.

Answer 1

You need to use a form in your template and submit it to call your view. i.e.
<form action="your_view_url" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="major" value="{{user.userprofile.major}}"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
an then in your view you access that with:
if request.POST:
major = request.POST.get('major')
As per documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/forms/

Answer 2

First of all you have to get the value of model with help of queryset, and put it in the dictionary and then pass it with the template.
In views:
def get(self, request):
queryset = Model_name.objects.all()
ctx = {
'queryset': queryset,
}
return render(request, 'page_name(or template_name).html', ctx)
in template:
<form action="{%url'(your_view_name without brackets)'%}" method="POST">
{% for data in queryset%}
<span class="username">{{data.name(field of your model)}} .
</span>
<span class="email">{{data.email(field of your model)}} .
</span>
{% endfor%}
</form>