Re: forms messing up css, help?

Yup, that fixed it, thank you very much!

On Jun 11, 10:51 am, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no idea what you mean by "stop working" -- without knowing what the
> code looked like before, I don't know how it worked before. The usual rule
> is that if something worked before, and doesn't work now, then the problem
> is in something that you did in between.
>
> Now if this is a new view, and has never worked at all, then that's
> different.
>
> At a first glance, you are using "render_to_response" in your view. This
> method creates a Context object out of the dictionary that you pass it (in
> your case, {'form': form} ).
>
> A Context object doesn't know anything about the request, so {{ request.path}} won't work in the template. It also doesn't have any ContextProcessors
>
> applied, so you won't have access to context variables like {{ STATIC_URL
>
> }}. The *only* variable that will be available in your template is {{ form
> }}, because you passed it in.
>
> What you want is a RequestContext object, rather than a Context object. You
> can get one in your template, by adding one parameter to render_to_response:
>
>     from django.template import RequestContext
>     ...
>     def contact(request):
>         ...
>         render_to_reponse(
>             '/var/djcode/oneadmin/templates/oneadmissions/contact.html',
>             {'form': form},
>             context_instance=RequestContext(request)
>         )
>
> That should give you a functioning template.
>
> Ian
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> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:27 PM, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I also noticed one more thing, in general, all html functions stopped
> > working with render_to_response i think. Like i have a function that
> > gets the current path ({% request.path == ".." %}). That also isn't
> > working. And even when I hard-code it, it doesn't make a difference.
> > any suggestions?
>
> > On Jun 11, 12:17 am, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Another thing i just noticed, When i view the source of my contact
> > > form, all the css/javascript includes are missing part of the path
> > > where i placed a {{ STATIC_URL }} tag. Why isn't this tag being
> > > rendered? Thank you.
>
> > > On Jun 11, 12:14 am, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hey guys, Whenever i try and add a contact form (from the django book)
> > > > into my current website, all my css/javascripts stop working. What is
> > > > the issue? Here are my codes:
>
> > > > #views.py
>
> > > > def contact(request):
> > > >     if request.method == 'POST':
> > > >         form = ContactForm(request.POST)
> > > >         if form.is_valid():
> > > >             cd = form.cleaned_data
> > > >             send_mail(
> > > >                 cd['subject'],
> > > >                 cd['message'],
> > > >                 cd.get('email', 'nore...@example.com'),
> > > >                 ['siteow...@example.com'],
> > > >             )
> > > >             return HttpResponseRedirect('/contact/thanks/')
> > > >     else:
> > > >         form = ContactForm()
> > > >     return render_to_response('/var/djcode/oneadmin/templates/
> > > > oneadmissions/contact.html', {'form': form})
>
> > > > #forms.py
>
> > > > from django import forms
>
> > > > class ContactForm(forms.Form):
> > > >     subject = forms.CharField()
> > > >     email = forms.EmailField()
> > > >     message = forms.CharField()
> > > >     name = forms.CharField()
>
> > > > #urls.py
> > > > urlpatterns = patterns('',
> > > >     ...
> > > >      (r'^contact-form/', views.contact),
> > > >     ...
> > > >      )
>
> > > > I have my static folder and everything created properly, its working
> > > > perfectly fine until i input the chapter on forms. Help please!
>
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> Ian Clelland
> <clell...@gmail.com>

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