I have a field in my my form named birthdate like:
class Personal_info_updateForm(forms.Form):
birthdate = forms.DateField(widget=SelectDateWidget(years=[y for y in range(1930,2050)]))
..
..
views.py
def personal_info(request):
mc = MenuCategories()
listCategories = mc.getCategories()
oe = OEConnector()
if request.method == 'POST':
f1 = Personal_info_updateForm(request.POST)
print request.POST
if f1.is_valid():
first_name = f1.cleaned_data['first_name']
last_name = f1.cleaned_data['last_name']
c=[last_name,first_name]
name = " ".join(c)
print name
birthdate = f1.cleaned_data['birthdate']
birthdate_year,birthdate_month,birthdate_day=['','','']
birthdate = [birthdate_year,birthdate_month,birthdate_day]
c=" ".join(birthdate)
print birthdate
title = f1.cleaned_data['title']
print title
email = f1.cleaned_data['email']
mobile = f1.cleaned_data['mobile']
phone = f1.cleaned_data['phone']
result = update_details(name,first_name,last_name,birthdate,email,mobile,phone)
print result
return HttpResponse('/Info?info="Congratulations, you have successfully updated the information with aLOTof"')
a1.html I am calling the whole form like
<form action="" method="POST">
<table style="color:black;text-align:left; margin-left: 20px;">
{{ form.as_table }}
</table>
<input type="submit" value="UPDATE">
</form>
I want that to store the value of my birthdate in Postgresql. But its not working so I have studied that I need to convert it into DateTime Field because date field object is completely different.. Please tell me how do I convert so that I can get rid of this problem. I am taking it as a string..
Thanks in advance
As per django docs, http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#datefield, the value of the date field normalizes to a Python datetime.date object.
So if you have something like birthdate = models.DateField()
in your model, assigning the value from the form should be straight forward.
#views.py
birthdate = f1.cleaned_data['birthdate']
my_model_instance.birthdate = birthdate
However, if you still want to convert it into DateTime, assuming you changed your model field into DateTime already, you can either:
For the second option, you will need to create a datetime.datetime object with the following format:
import datetime
bday = datetime.datetime(year, month, day)
Check out the python docs on datetime and [time][2]
for more info.