I'm trying to send my comment form using ajax, right now when user inserts a comment then whole page gets refreshed. I want this to be inserted nicely without page getting refreshed.
So I tried bunch of things but no luck. since I'm a beginner, I tried to follow many tutorial links;
<a href="https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-and-ajax-form-submissions/">https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-and-ajax-form-submissions/</a>
<a href="https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2...ication-practise/comment-page-1/#comment-1631">https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2...ication-practise/comment-page-1/#comment-1631</a>
I realize my problem is that I have a hard time manipulating my code in views.py and forms.py
Thus before doing a client side programming(js and ajax) I need to set my backend(python code) again to be set for the ajax.
Can someone please help me with this?
I don't know how to set my backend....
I don't know what to do here...I tried it but failing....what is going on here })
this is my forms.py
and my views.py
I'm still very shaky on the idea of using ajax even after reading a tutorial about it...how json comes into play and how I should modify views.py too....can someone please explain how they all group together?and help me getting this done...
So I tried bunch of things but no luck. since I'm a beginner, I tried to follow many tutorial links;
<a href="https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-and-ajax-form-submissions/">https://realpython.com/blog/python/django-and-ajax-form-submissions/</a>
<a href="https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2...ication-practise/comment-page-1/#comment-1631">https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2...ication-practise/comment-page-1/#comment-1631</a>
I realize my problem is that I have a hard time manipulating my code in views.py and forms.py
Thus before doing a client side programming(js and ajax) I need to set my backend(python code) again to be set for the ajax.
Can someone please help me with this?
I don't know how to set my backend....
Code:
<div class="leave comment>
<form method="POST" action='{% url "comment_create" %}' id='commentForAjax'>{% csrf_token %}
<input type='hidden' name='post_id' value='{{ post.id }}'/>
<input type='hidden' name='origin_path' value='{{ request.get_full_path }}'/>
{% crispy comment_form comment_form.helper %}
</form>
</div>
<div class='reply_comment'>
<form method="POST" action='{% url "comment_create" %}'>{% csrf_token %}
<input type='hidden' name='post_id' id='post_id' value='{% url "comment_create" %}'/>
<input type='hidden' name='origin_path' id='origin_path' value='{{ comment.get_origin }}'/>
<input type='hidden' name='parent_id' id='parent_id' value='{{ comment.id }}' />
{% crispy comment_form comment_form.helper %}
</form>
</div>
<script>
$(document).on('submit','.commentForAjax', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type:'POST',
url:'comment/create/',
data:{
post_id:$('#post_id').val(),
origin_path:$('#origin_path').val(),
parent_id:$('#parent_id').val(),
csrfmiddlewaretoken:$('input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]').val()
},
success:function(json){
I don't know what to do here...I tried it but failing....what is going on here })
this is my forms.py
Code:
class CommentForm(forms.Form):
comment = forms.CharField(
widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={"placeholder": "leave your thoughts"})
)
def __init__(self, data=None, files=None, **kwargs):
super(CommentForm, self).__init__(data, files, kwargs)
self.helper = FormHelper()
self.helper.form_show_labels = False
self.helper.add_input(Submit('submit', 'leave your thoughts', css_class='btn btn-default',))
and my views.py
Code:
def comment_create_view(request):
if request.method == "POST" and request.user.is_authenticated() and request.is_ajax():
parent_id = request.POST.get('parent_id')
post_id = request.POST.get("post_id")
origin_path = request.POST.get("origin_path")
try:
post = Post.objects.get(id=post_id)
except:
post = None
parent_comment = None
if parent_id is not None:
try:
parent_comment = Comment.objects.get(id=parent_id)
except:
parent_comment = None
if parent_comment is not None and parent_comment.post is not None:
post = parent_comment.post
form = CommentForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
comment_text = form.cleaned_data['comment']
if parent_comment is not None:
# parent comments exists
new_comment = Comment.objects.create_comment(
user=MyProfile.objects.get(user=request.user),
path=parent_comment.get_origin,
text=comment_text,
post = post,
parent=parent_comment
)
return HttpResponseRedirect(post.get_absolute_url())
else:
new_comment = Comment.objects.create_comment(
user=MyProfile.objects.get(user=request.user),
path=origin_path,
text=comment_text,
post = post
)
return HttpResponseRedirect(post.get_absolute_url())
else:
messages.error(request, "There was an error with your comment.")
return HttpResponseRedirect(origin_path)
else:
raise Http404
I'm still very shaky on the idea of using ajax even after reading a tutorial about it...how json comes into play and how I should modify views.py too....can someone please explain how they all group together?and help me getting this done...
Code:
else:
raise Http404