How would I pass a user object or a request to my form for using it as an initial value for input textbox?
For example, I have my form:
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
contact_name = forms.CharField(required=True, initial="???")
contact_email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
subjects = forms.ChoiceField(choices=emailsubjects)
content = forms.CharField(
required=True,
widget=forms.Textarea
)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.request = kwargs.pop("request")
super(ContactForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['contact_name'].label = "Your name:"
self.fields['contact_email'].label = "Your email:"
self.fields['content'].label = "What do you want to say?"
self.fields['subjects'].label = "Please, select the subject of your message"
Where i want my user.first_name to be as a default value for contact_name field.
Here is my views.py, where i call for form:
def ContactsView(request):
form_class = ContactForm(request=request)
# new logic!
if request.method == 'POST':
form = form_class(data=request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
contact_name = request.POST.get(
'contact_name'
, '')
contact_email = request.POST.get(
'contact_email'
, '')
form_content = request.POST.get('content', '')
subjects = form.cleaned_data['subjects']
subjects = dict(form.fields['subjects'].choices)[subjects]
# Email the profile with the
# contact information
template = get_template('threeD/email/contact_template.txt')
context = Context({
'contact_name': contact_name,
'subjects': subjects,
'contact_email': contact_email,
'form_content': form_content,
})
content = template.render(context)
email = EmailMessage(
"New message from " + contact_name,
content,
"Message - " + subjects + ' ',
['smart.3d.printing.facility@gmail.com'],
headers={'Reply-To': contact_email}
)
email.send()
messages.success(request, "Thank you for your message.")
return redirect('/index/contacts/')
return render(request, 'threeD/contacts.html', {
'form': form_class,
})
Any help would be very much appreciated