django - what goes into the form action parameter when view requires a parameter?

Question

This is what I have:

myview.py with a view that takes a parameter user:

def myview(request, user):
   form = MyForm(request.POST)
   ....
   return render_to_response('template.html',locals(), context_instance=RequestContext(request))

The user gets passed through an url.

urls.py:

...

urlpatterns += patterns('myview.views',
    (r'^(?P<user>\w+)/', 'myview'),
)

...

I also have a template.html with a form:

<form name="form" method="post" action=".">
...
</form>

What goes in the the form action parameter if myview function requires a parameter?

Right now I have action="." . The reason I'm asking is because when I fill up the form In (templates.html) and click the submit button I see absolutely no field values passed from that form. It's almost like I'm passing an empty form when I click the submit button. Any ideas? Thank you!

Answer 1

If you want to explicitly set the action, assuming you have a variable username in your template,

<form name="form" method="post" action="{% url myview.views username %}">

or you could assign a name for the url in your urls.py so you could reference it like this:

# urls.py
urlpatterns += patterns('myview.views',
    url(r'^(?P<user>\w+)/', 'myview', name='myurl'), # I can't think of a better name
)

# template.html
<form name="form" method="post" action="{% url myurl username %}">