DJANGO - local variable 'form' referenced before assignment

Question

I\'m trying to make a form get information from the user and use this information to send a email. Here\'s my code:

#forms.py
from django import forms

class Con         


        

Answer 1

You define the form variable in this if request.method == 'POST': block. If you access the view with a GET request form gets not defined. You should change the view to something like this:

def contato(request):
    form_class = ContactForm
    # if request is not post, initialize an empty form
    form = form_class(request.POST or None)
    if request.method == 'POST':

        if form.is_valid():
            nome = request.POST.get('nome')
            email = request.POST.get('email')
            msg = request.POST.get('msg')

            send_mail('Subject here', msg, email, ['testmail@gmail.com'], fail_silently=False)
            return HttpResponseRedirect('blog/inicio')
    return render(request, 'blog/inicio.html', {'form': form})