Django: How can I call a view function from template?
Assuming that you want to get a value from the user input in html textbox whenever the user clicks 'Click' button, and then call a python function (mypythonfunction) that you wrote inside mypythoncode.py. Note that "btn" class is defined in a css file.
inside templateHTML.html:
<form action="#" method="get">
<input type="text" value="8" name="mytextbox" size="1"/>
<input type="submit" class="btn" value="Click" name="mybtn">
</form>
inside view.py:
import mypythoncode
def request_page(request):
if(request.GET.get('mybtn')):
mypythoncode.mypythonfunction( int(request.GET.get('mytextbox')) )
return render(request,'myApp/templateHTML.html')
One option is, you can wrap the submit
button with a form
Something like this:
<form action="{% url path.to.request_page %}" method="POST">
<input id="submit" type="button" value="Click" />
</form>
(remove the onclick
and method
)
If you want to load a specific part of the page, without page reload - you can do
<input id="submit" type="button" value="Click" data_url/>
and on a submit
listener
$(function(){
$('form').on('submit', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: $(this).attr('action'),
method: $(this).attr('method'),
success: function(data){ $('#target').html(data) }
});
});
});