By : Javed Khan

I've been putting off writing about my experience with django form wizard for some time now. I came across this blog post by Kenneth Love which finally compelled me to write this down.

About Django Form Wizard:

Form Wizard can be handy when you have a huge form, and you want to make it less intimidating to the user by splitting it into multiple steps.

If you have glued multiple forms together with sessions or whatnot and it turned out to be a mess, you now what I'm talking about :)

Think surveys, checkouts, lengthy registrations etc.

The class ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc :) ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms.

1. Basic form

Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it.

Ans. Create a simple form.

class UserForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField()
    joined_on = forms.DateField()

This wil take care that the form is displayed with two text field, and a value for them are filled in, and the second field has correct formatting for a date.

2.

Prob. Create a form which has values populated depending upon a ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Newforms, (or forms now) are without doubt one of the coolest features of Django. (Of course after Admin, Localflavor, and many others). Here is some sample code.

class EmployeeForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField()
    age = forms.IntegerField()
    resume = forms.FileField()

Just this code gives you

1. A form which knows how to render itself as Html.
2. A form which knows how to validate data on the server side.
3. A form which knows how to show the relevant errors.

However think of this scenario,

You need to customise your form depending on values in the Database.

What you want to do is ...