[Django]-How to get POST request values in Django?

If you need to do something on the front end you can respond to the onsubmit event of your form. If you are just posting to admin/start you can access post variables in your view through the request object. request.POST which is a dictionary of post variables

You can use:

request.POST['title']

it will easily fetch the data with that title.

For django forms you can do this;

form = UserLoginForm(data=request.POST) #getting the whole data from the user.
user = form.save() #saving the details obtained from the user.
username = user.cleaned_data.get("username") #where "username" in parenthesis is the name of the Charfield (the variale name i.e, username = forms.Charfield(max_length=64))

For example, if you submit the POST request values in index.html as shown below:

{# "index.html" #}

<form action="{% url 'my_app1:test' %}" method="post">
  {% csrf_token %}
  <input type="text" name="fruits" value="apple" /></br>
  <input type="text" name="meat" value="beef" /></br>
  <input type="submit" />
</form>

Then, you can get the POST request values in my_app1/views.py as shown below. *My answer explains how to get a POST request values’ list in Django and my answer explains how to get GET request values in Django:

# "my_app1/views.py"

from django.shortcuts import render

def test(request):

    print(request.POST['fruits']) # apple
    print(request.POST.get('meat')) # beef
    print(request.POST.get('fish')) # None
    print(request.POST.get('fish', "Doesn't exist")) # Doesn't exist
    print(request.POST.getlist('fruits')) # ['apple']
    print(request.POST.getlist('fish')) # []
    print(request.POST.getlist('fish', "Doesn't exist")) # Doesn't exist
    print(request.POST._getlist('meat')) # ['beef']
    print(request.POST._getlist('fish')) # []
    print(request.POST._getlist('fish', "Doesn't exist")) # Doesn't exist
    print(list(request.POST.keys())) # ['csrfmiddlewaretoken', 'fruits', 'meat']
    print(list(request.POST.values())) # ['b0EQnFlWoAp4pUrmsFxas43DYYTr7k04PhhYxqK3FDTBSXWAkJnsCA3GiownZQzS', 'apple', 'beef']
    print(list(request.POST.items())) # [('csrfmiddlewaretoken', 'b0EQnFlWoAp4pUrmsFxas43DYYTr7k04PhhYxqK3FDTBSXWAkJnsCA3GiownZQzS'), ('fruits', 'apple'), ('meat', 'beef')]
    print(list(request.POST.lists())) # [('csrfmiddlewaretoken', ['b0EQnFlWoAp4pUrmsFxas43DYYTr7k04PhhYxqK3FDTBSXWAkJnsCA3GiownZQzS']), ('fruits', ['apple']), ('meat', ['beef'])]
    print(request.POST.dict()) # {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': 'b0EQnFlWoAp4pUrmsFxas43DYYTr7k04PhhYxqK3FDTBSXWAkJnsCA3GiownZQzS', 'fruits': 'apple', 'meat': 'beef'}
    print(dict(request.POST)) # {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': ['b0EQnFlWoAp4pUrmsFxas43DYYTr7k04PhhYxqK3FDTBSXWAkJnsCA3GiownZQzS'], 'fruits': ['apple'], 'meat': ['beef']}

    return render(request, 'test.html')

Then, you can get the POST request values in test.html as shown below:

{# "test.html" #}

{{ request.POST.fruits }} {# apple #}
{{ request.POST.meat }} {# beef #}
{{ request.POST.dict }} {# {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': 'Vzjk89LPweM4loDWTb9gFNHlRQNJRMNwzQWsiUaWNhgBOr8aLfZyPjHobgqFJimk', 'fruits': 'apple', 'meat': 'beef'} #}