Web Development with Django

6. Forms

Overview

This chapter introduces web forms, a method of sending information from the browser to the web server. It starts with an introduction to forms in general and discusses how data is encoded to be sent to the server. You will learn about the differences between sending form data in a GET HTTP request and sending it in a POST HTTP request, and how to choose which one to use. By the end of the chapter, you will know how Django's form library is used to build and validate forms automatically and how it cuts down the amount of manual HTML you need to write.

Introduction

So far, the views we have been building for Django have been one-way only. Our browser is retrieving data from the views we have written but it does not send ...