Chapter 7. Forms
HTML forms are the backbone of interactive Web sites, from the simplicity of Google's single search box to ubiquitous blog comment-submission forms to complex custom data-entry interfaces. This chapter covers how you can use Django to access user-submitted form data, validate it, and do something with it. Along the way, we'll cover HttpRequest and Form objects.
Getting Data from the Request Object
We introduced HttpRequest objects in Chapter 3 when we first covered view functions, but we didn't have much to say about them at the time. Recall that each view function takes an HttpRequest object as its first parameter, as in our hello() view:
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