Submit Data from a HTML form to a Database in Django - django

Question

What I'm trying to do is to allow a user to enter any text in a form and have the data stored in a database. However, it is not being saved when I test it. I'm sure it's probably something stupid, but any help will be appreciated. I'm also pretty new to using Django.
Below is what I have currently have. Any help will be appreciated.
models.py:
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
class TEST(models.Model):
test_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
forms.py:
from django import forms
class Test_Form(forms.Form):
test_name = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
from Test.forms import Test_Form
from Test.models import Test
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
def index(request):
return render(request, 'Test/Test.html')
def Test_View(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = Test_Form(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
test_name = request.POST.get('test_name', '')
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('Test:IOC'))
else:
form = Test_Form()
return render(request, 'Test/Test.html', {'form': form})
Snippet from test.html
<form action="/Test/" method="POST" id="Test" class="form-horizontal form-groups-bordered" role="form">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-group">
<div class="row">
<label class="col-lg-2 control-label" for="test_title">Full Name of Test</label>
<div class="col-lg-8">
<input id="ioc_name" class="form-control" name="test_name" type="CharField" data-validate="required" placeholder="ex: This is a test">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-1 col-lg-offset-9">
<a class="btn btn-success btn-icon">
Submit
<input type="submit" />
<i class="entypo-check"></i>
</a>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

The model instance isn't save automatically with magic. You need to instantiate it, assign the data, and call the save method, like this:
test = TEST(test_name=form.cleaned_data["test_name"])
test.save()
Or in one step: TEST.create(test_name=form.cleaned_data["test_name"])
Or even shorter (if I remember well): TEST.create(**form.cleaned_data)
You should check the docs from creating forms from models, it'll get your work easier (this is for Django 1.1.0) (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/forms/modelforms/)
Also, your input is wrong:
You have to set type to a valid value (text in this case). Anyway, as t doesn't recognizes CharField as a valid type, it sets its value to text, which is the default, so you don't have problems here. Valid types
I don't know if data-validate is part of your own code, but if not and you wanna the field be required before hitting submit, you should use required, which is an HTML attr.