How to send an email after User post the form? - django

Question

i am beginner and used steps for sending email from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/email/
but i didn't accomplished to send email.
i want to send an email automatically using django email after a user submit the form . i am having a booking form and having email field in it after user post the form i want to send a email "Thankyou for your booking / your booking is placed ".
for eg
first name : Abubakar
Last name :Afzal
email : any#gmail.com
i want to take any#gmail.com and send email to it . after user post the form .
settings.py
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'my#gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'mypassword'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
View.py
class BookingView(FormView):
template_name = 'buggy_app/booking.html'
form_class = BookingForm
models = Booking
def form_valid(self, form):
car_id = self.request.GET.get('car', '')
car = Car.objects.get(id=car_id)
car.is_available_car = False
car.save()
form.save()
return super(BookingView, self).form_valid(form)
success_url = reverse_lazy('index')
Forms.py
class BookingForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Booking
widgets = {
times_pick': TimePickerInput(), }
fields = ('first_name','last_name','email','book_car','contact_number','times_pick',)

Answer 1

You can define a function called send_emails (or any name). and call taht function from within form_valid method. It will look something like this
def form_valid(self, form):
car_id = self.request.GET.get('car', '')
car = Car.objects.get(id=car_id)
car.is_available_car = False
car.save()
form.save()
form.cleaned_data.get('username')
first_name = form.cleaned_data.get('first_name')
last_name = form.cleaned_data.get('last_name')
to_email = form.cleaned_data.get('email')
#your function here
send_emails(first_name, last_name, to_email)
and then define function something like this.
def send_emails(first_name, last_name, to_email):
#get template
htmly = get_template('email_templates/welcome.html')
#create a context
d = {'first_name':first_name, 'last_name':last_name}
subject, from_email, to = 'Subject line', settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER, to_email
#pass the context to html template
html_content = htmly.render(d)
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, html_content, from_email, [to])
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.send()

Answer 2

class BookingView(FormView):
template_name = 'buggy_app/booking.html'
form_class = BookingForm
models = Booking
def form_valid(self, form):
car_id = self.request.GET.get('car', '')
car = Car.objects.get(id=car_id)
car.is_available_car = False
car.save()
form.save()
subject = 'Thankyou for your booking / your booking is placed'
message = 'Thankyou for your booking / your booking is placed'
email_from = settings.EMAIL_HOST_USER
recipient_list = [any#gmail.com]
send_mail( subject, message, email_from, recipient_list )
return super(BookingView, self).form_valid(form)
success_url = reverse_lazy('index')