Django Forms Challenge Task

Question

We've made models and model forms, now we need a view to render the form. Write a new view named product_form that instantiates the DigitalProductForm and provides it to the products/product_form.html template as the key "form".

I know that I'm supposed to instantiate the model in the view, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Please help with an explanation to your code pretty please! Or maybe a link to a vid where they explain what I'm doing wrong if you know. Thank you so much! Much appreciated.

products/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

from . import forms

def product_form(request):
    form = forms.DigitalProductsForm()
    if request.method = 'POST':
        form = forms.digitalProductsForm(request.POST)
        if form.isValid():

products/templates/products/product_form.html

<form action='' method='POST'>
    <input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>

Answer 1 · 2017-07-05T05:03:31Z

July 5, 2017 5:03am

Don't overthink it too much.

from django.shortcuts import render

from . import forms

def product_form(request):
    form = forms.DigitalProductForm()
    return render(request, 'products/product_form.html', {'form': form})

Answer 2 · 2017-03-19T19:07:59Z

March 19, 2017 7:07pm

im stuck on this one too

Answer 3 · 2017-03-22T01:00:00Z

March 22, 2017 1:00am

I had trouble as well. The question is not asking you to check if it is "POST" or if it is valid. You have instantiated the form, now render it.

Answer 4 · 2017-05-28T08:57:15Z

May 28, 2017 8:57am

def product_form(request): form = forms.DigitalProductForm() return render(request, 'products/product_form.html', {'form':form})

this worked for me.

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