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I'm currently making a very basic dummy social networking site to learn Django, and I'm having trouble with request.POST.get() which is not fetching anything. As this way, I'm unable to have user inputs in my view.py. which means my site can't register any user. Please help me out as all of my further learning depends upon fetching user input. My coding is like (i know it's very basic and could look messy or somewhat outdated, sorry for that):

models.py:

class User(models.Model):

    first_name= models.CharField(max_length=200)

    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200)

    email = models.CharField(max_length=250)

    password = models.CharField(max_length=250)

    gender = models.CharField(max_length=250)

    flag = models.IntegerField(default=0)

views.py:

def register_user(request):

    user = User()

    user.first_name = request.POST.get('firstName')

    user.last_name = request.POST.get('lastName')

    user.email = request.POST.get('email')

    user.password = request.POST.get('password')

    user.gender = request.POST.get('gender')

    user.save()

    return redirect('/login/')

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views



app_name = 'signup'



urlpatterns = [

    url('^$', views.signup, name='signup'),

    url('^login/$', views.register_user, name='register_user'),

]

signup/index.html:

<form action="{% url 'signup:register_user' %}" method="POST">



<div class="name">

    <table class="nameTable">

        <tr class="nameRow">

            <td>

                <p class="nameCSS">First Name</p>

            </td>

            <td>

                <p class="lastName nameCSS">Last Name</p>

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr class="nameRow">

            <td>

                <input type="text" class="input" name="firstName">

            </td>

            <td>

                <input type="text" class="input lastName" name="lastName">

            </td>

        </tr>



    </table>

</div>



<div>

    <p class="text">Email</p>

</div>

<div>

    <input type="email" class="input largeInput" name="email">

</div>



<div>

    <p class="text">Password</p>

</div>

<div>

    <input type="password" class="input largeInput" name="password">

</div>

<div class="signUpDiv">

    <button class="signUpButton" type="submit">Sign Up</button>

</div>

(there's a lot more in index.html, but for better short post's sake I've included just a little of its code and yes, I'm not using built-in forms class to make this form, but I've made my own template which this form coding is in. Hope I could do this and the problem isn't there)

When this code is run, no data entry is made. Whereas, if I run this method from shell using static values, it works fine. Thanks in advance

Ideally, you should be using ModelForm for this scenario but I tried executing your code and it worked with slight changes.

Here are the changes as per my opinion:

You forgot to put {% csrf_token %} in your template which will lead to the forbidden error during the submission of the form

I have updated the template code with the csrf_token.

<form action="{% url 'register_user' %}" method="POST">

{% csrf_token %}



<div class="name">

    <table class="nameTable">

        <tr class="nameRow">

            <td>

                <p class="nameCSS">First Name</p>

            </td>

            <td>

                <p class="lastName nameCSS">Last Name</p>

            </td>

        </tr>

        <tr class="nameRow">

            <td>

                <input type="text" class="input" name="firstName">

            </td>

            <td>

                <input type="text" class="input lastName" name="lastName">

            </td>

        </tr>



    </table>

</div>



<div>

    <p class="text">Email</p>

</div>

<div>

    <input type="email" class="input largeInput" name="email">

</div>



<div>

    <p class="text">Password</p>

</div>

<div>

    <input type="password" class="input largeInput" name="password">

</div>

<div class="signUpDiv">

    <button class="signUpButton" type="submit">Sign Up</button>

</div>

You can use just one view to handle GET and POST request

I have updated the views just for the sake of this example, however, make sure that you are encrypting the password before saving it (use Django's default user model) and use

user.set_password('PASSWORD_HERE')

Updated the code for views.py

def register_user(request):

    if request.POST:

        user = User()

        user.first_name = request.POST.get('firstName')

        user.last_name = request.POST.get('lastName')

        user.email = request.POST.get('email')

        user.password = request.POST.get('password')

        user.gender = request.POST.get('gender')

        user.save()

    else:

        return render(request, "YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME_HERE")    

Also make sure that your url name is correct i.e register_user

I hope this helps:)