django the way to access data from input form - django

Question

My symptom is when I click the modify button and then I write down the information on new window that is implemented by bootstrap div part. However, my database doesn't change at all. Please ignore ... in codes, I delete attributes that looks messy. Codes can have typo, because I wrote it down manually to find a bug, but I didn't find.
I tried in view.py, address_modify makes return Httpresponse(street), but It returned None.
view.py
def address_modify(request, adid):
cat = get_object_or_404(Address, adid=adid)
if request.method == "POST":
old_adid = adid
email = request.user.email
street = request.POST.get("street", None)
city = request.POST.get("city", None)
...
Address.objects.filter(adid=adid).update(..., street=street, city=city, state=state, ...)
return redirect('/address/')
return redirect('/address/')
template ( I name it address.html)
<button class="btn btn-success" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#modify">MODIFY</button>
<div class ="model fade" id="modify" role="dialog">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<from action="" method="POST">{% csrf_token %}
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
<input type="text" name="street">
<input type="text" name="city">
...
...
<input type="text" name="zipcode">
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<a href="{% url 'address_modify' i.adid %}">{% csrf_token %}
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save Change</button></a>
<div></form>
urls.py
url(r'^address_modify/(?P<adid>[0-9]+)/$', MyAppView.address_modify, name='address_modify'),

Answer 1

In django the best practice is to create a forms.py file to handle forms, its really easy you can read the doumentation on it, basically the form will ensure that all your data are read.

Answer 2

That is not how you implement form and form submit. Your link is not submitting anything, it's just opening a link. This is the standard form syntax:
<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
... your form input fields here ...
<input type="submit" value="Save changes">
</form>
You must submit the form. Note type="submit" there.
Next to that, Django has forms feature. Use it. Create forms.py as #Saumel-Omole suggested. Form for model Address would look like this:
class AddressForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Address
fields = '__all__'
Then you modify your view to use the form like:
def address_modify(request, adid):
cat = get_object_or_404(Address, adid=adid)
form = AddressForm(instance=cat)
if request.method == 'POST':
form = AddressForm(request.POST, instance=cat)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return redirect('/address/')
else:
print(form.errors) # change to logging
return render(request, 'address.html', {'form': form})
Go over the official Django tutorial. These basics are all there. Maybe it is going to take you a day or two to get through it, but long-term that's going to be far less than guessing and googling around for days for basic stuff.