Accessing form elements in django views

Question

this is my html form :

<form method="post" name="crossDayForm" action='{% url 'crossDayGolden' %}'>
    Query : <input type="text" name="query" required>
    <input type="date" name="date1" required>
    <input type="date" name="date2" required>
    <input type=submit value="Go"  >
  </form>

I want to know how to get query,date1,date2 in my views?

Follow this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/forms/ — PrathapG, Oct 18 '18 at 11:49
refer to this question - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14225601/django-form-to-query-database-models — ans2human, Oct 18 '18 at 11:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '18 at 14:17

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you can access this variable doing:

views.py

def proccess(request):
   if request.method == 'POST':
       date1 = request.POST.get('date1')
       date2 = request.POST.get('date2')

answered Oct 18 '18 at 14:17

Ricardo Prado

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '18 at 11:50

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Refer official doc.

You can access form element by form.fields['name'].

answered Oct 18 '18 at 11:50

a_k_v

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Accessing form elements in django views

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