Saving POST data using a Model and ModelForm

Author: Max Goodridge

home/forms.py

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 from django import forms
+from home.models import Post
 
 
-class HomeForm(forms.Form):
+class HomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
     post = forms.CharField()
+
+    class Meta:
+        model = Post
+        fields = ('post',)

home/migrations/0001_initial.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.10.4 on 2017-02-17 01:03
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db import migrations, models
+import django.db.models.deletion
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+        migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Post',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('post', models.CharField(max_length=500)),
+                ('user', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]

home/models.py

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 from django.db import models
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 
-# Create your models here.
+
+class Post(models.Model):
+    post = models.CharField(max_length=500)
+    user = models.ForeignKey(User)

home/views.py

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ def get(self, request):
     def post(self, request):
         form = HomeForm(request.POST)
         if form.is_valid():
+            post = form.save(commit=False)
+            post.user = request.user
+            post.save()
+            
             text = form.cleaned_data['post']
             form = HomeForm()
             return redirect('home:home')