Django Form Handling

A snippet to handle forms in Django views.

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from .forms import MyForm

def my_view(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = MyForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            # process form data
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/success/')
    else:
        form = MyForm()

    return render(request, 'my_template.html', {'form': form})

Django QuerySet Filtering

A snippet to filter QuerySets in Django.

from myapp.models import Article

# Get all articles published in 2023
articles_2023 = Article.objects.filter(published_date__year=2023)

Django Custom Template Tags

A snippet to create custom template tags in Django.

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def current_time(format_string):
    return datetime.datetime.now().strftime(format_string)