I am trying to validate a User Profiling form in django and I can't. It seems that there is something wrong with forms.dateField(). It does not validate (ie. is_valid() return false)
this is my forms dateField entry:
date_of_birth = forms.DateField(label=u'date of birth', input_formats='%d/%m/%Y', required=False, widget=forms.DateInput(format = '%d/%m/%Y'))
I noticed that request.POST.get('date_of_birth', '')
returns the correct date (ie. the date I have typed in the html form field).
I also noticed that in this function:
def clean_date_of_birth(self):
date = self.cleaned_data['date_of_birth']
date object is always None.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
This is what I am trying to enter:
29/07/1974
(July 29th, 1974)
This is the output of 'submit' (various requests)
29/07/1974
profile form is *NOT* valid
[23/Feb/2012 12:16:27] "POST /profile/chris/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16289
29/7/1974
profile form is *NOT* valid
[23/Feb/2012 12:16:33] "POST /profile/chris/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16289
1974-07-29
profile form is *NOT* valid
[23/Feb/2012 12:18:15] "POST /profile/chris/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16289
This is my template
<div class="input_area">
<form id="profile_form" method="post" action="/profile/{{ user.username }}/">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="save" class="submitButton idle" style="width:70px" />
</form>
</div>
this is my views.py
def profile(request, username):
form = ProfileForm(request.POST)
print request.POST.get('date_of_birth', 'None')
try:
user = User.objects.get(username=username)
except User.DoesNotExist:
raise Http404(u'User not Found')
if form.is_valid():
print 'profile form is valid'
else:
print 'profile form is *NOT* valid'
and finally this is my forms.py (do not use clean_data functions at the moment)
class ProfileForm(forms.Form):
tz = []
timezones = Timezone.objects.all()
for timezone in timezones:
val = str(timezone.hour)
v = val.split(':')
tuple = (timezone.id, '('+timezone.sign+''+v[0]+':'+v[1]+') '+timezone.name)
tz.append(tuple)
sex = [('male','male'),('female', 'female'),('unknown', 'prefer not to say')]
real_name = forms.CharField(label=u'real name', widget=forms.TextInput, required=False)
date_of_birth = forms.DateField(label=u'date of birth', input_formats='%d/%m/%Y', required=False, widget=forms.DateInput(format = '%d/%m/%Y'))
pp_email = forms.EmailField(label=u'Paypal Email', widget=forms.TextInput, required=False)
gender = forms.ChoiceField(label=u'sex', choices=sex, widget=forms.Select(), required=False)
timezone = forms.ChoiceField(label=u'time zone', choices=tz, widget=forms.Select())
address = forms.CharField(label=u'street address', widget=forms.Textarea, required=False)
postal = forms.CharField(label=u'postal code', widget=forms.TextInput, required=False)
input formats in DateField must be list or tuple https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.DateField.input_formats