I am trying to save the form data to database - django

Question

I am trying to save user form data to database. I tried in these way but its not save anything i'm getting None value.
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import Signup
from .models import Signup
def Sign_up(request):
username = request.POST.get('username')
mobile_number = request.POST.get('mobile_number')
email = request.POST.get('email')
password = request.POST.get('password')
address = request.POST.get('address')
print("Hello form is submitted")
print(username)
print(mobile_number)
print(email)
print(password)
print(address)
post = Signup(username= username, mobile_number=mobile_number,email=email,
password=password, address=address)
post.save()
return render(request, 'sign_up/sign_up.html',{})
models.py
from django.db import models
class Signup(models.Model):
username = models.CharField(max_length=300, default='SOME STRING',
blank=True, null=True)
mobile_number = models.CharField(max_length=12, blank=True, null=True)
email = models.EmailField(max_length=50, blank=True, null=True)
password = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True, null=True)
address = models. CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, null=True)
print("Hi")
def __str__(self):
return self.username or ''
def __str__(self):
return self.mobile_number or ''
def __str__(self):
return self.email or ''
def __str__(self):
return self.password or ''
def __str__(self):
return self.address or ''
forms.py
from django import forms
from .models import Signup
class SignupForm(forms.Form):
username = forms.CharField(max_length=30, required=True)
mobile_number = forms.CharField(max_length=12)
email = forms.EmailField(max_length=50, required=True)
password = forms.CharField(max_length=50, required=True)
address = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
I'm getting like this
Django version 2.2, using settings 'project.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Hello form is submitted
None
None
None
None
None
[01/May/2019 22:39:18] "GET /signup/? HTTP/1.1" 200 3360

Answer 1

You are creating a Signup object in a wrong manner, create it like this:
you can create model form instead like this:
class SignupForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Signup
fields = ('username', )#pass fields here
and in your view you get the values entered by user like this:
formToSave = SignupForm(request.POST,request.FILES)
if formToSave.is_valid():
product = formToSave.save()
but if you don't want to use the model form you can create the object Signup and then save it as you are doing but make sure before creating the object you are getting all the form values in your views by printing them(as you are already doing)
post = Signup.objects.create(username= username, mobile_number=mobile_number,email=email,
password=password, address=address)
then save it
post.save()

Answer 2

If you are using this model in production be careful.
Storing non hashed password is a really bad practice.
I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel here.
There is several ways to manage the User model in django.
If you decide to create your own User system, please read this first:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/auth/customizing/
Extending the existing User model
There are two ways to extend the default User model without substituting your own model. If the changes you need are purely behavioral, and don’t require any change to what is stored in the database, you can create a proxy model based on User. This allows for any of the features offered by proxy models including default ordering, custom managers, or custom model methods.
If you wish to store information related to User, you can use a OneToOneField to a model containing the fields for additional information. This one-to-one model is often called a profile model, as it might store non-auth related information about a site user. For example you might create an Employee model:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Employee(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
department = models.CharField(max_length=100)
Using a custom user model when starting a project
If you’re starting a new project, it’s highly recommended to set up a custom user model, even if the default User model is sufficient for you. This model behaves identically to the default user model, but you’ll be able to customize it in the future if the need arises:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
class User(AbstractUser):
pass
Don’t forget to point AUTH_USER_MODEL to it. Do this before creating any migrations or running manage.py migrate for the first time.
Also, register the model in the app’s admin.py
Further in the Doc
Specifying a custom user model
When you start your project with a custom user model, stop to consider
if this is the right choice for your project.
Keeping all user related information in one model removes the need for
additional or more complex database queries to retrieve related
models. On the other hand, it may be more suitable to store
app-specific user information in a model that has a relation with your
custom user model. That allows each app to specify its own user data
requirements without potentially conflicting or breaking assumptions
by other apps. It also means that you would keep your user model as
simple as possible, focused on authentication, and following the
minimum requirements Django expects custom user models to meet.
If you use the default authentication backend, then your model must
have a single unique field that can be used for identification
purposes. This can be a username, an email address, or any other
unique attribute. A non-unique username field is allowed if you use a
custom authentication backend that can support it.
The easiest way to construct a compliant custom user model is to
inherit from AbstractBaseUser. AbstractBaseUser provides the core
implementation of a user model, including hashed passwords and
tokenized password resets. You must then provide some key
implementation details
As a reference here is the doc page about user authentication: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/auth/
If you want to choose the default django User system: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/auth/default/ and more info about the default user api : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/contrib/auth/