how to get POST data in django 1.3

Question

Hey, I am following this tutorial to learn to make a wiki page with Django. However, it is made in django 0.96 and I use Django 1.3 so there are some things that are different.

Answer 1

You've got to include {% csrf_token %} in your form's template between your

tags.

    {% csrf_token %}
    {{content}}

    

If the csrf_token is not rendered into your form make sure you're providing the RequestContext in the view's response:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def app_view(request):
    return render_to_response('app_template.html', 
                              app_data_dictionary, 
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Or, use this shortcut method:

from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template

def app_view(request):             
    return direct_to_template(request, 'app_template.html', app_data_dictionary)

The RequestContext is always available when you're using generic views.