Create View – Function based Views Django

Last Updated : 13 Jan, 2020

Create View refers to a view (logic) to create an instance of a table in the database. It is just like taking an input from a user and storing it in a specified table. Django provides extra-ordinary support for Create Views but let’s check how it is done manually through a function-based view. This article revolves around Create View which involves concepts such as Django Forms, Django Models.
For Create View, we need a project with some models and forms which will be used to create instances of that model.

Django Create View – Function Based Views

Illustration of How to create and use create view using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.

How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?

How to Create an App in Django ?

After you have a project and an app, let’s create a model of which we will be creating instances through our view. In geeks/models.py,

# import the standard Django Model 
# from built-in library 
from django.db import models 
   
# declare a new model with a name "GeeksModel" 
class GeeksModel(models.Model): 
  
    # fields of the model 
    title = models.CharField(max_length = 200) 
    description = models.TextField() 
  
    # renames the instances of the model 
    # with their title name 
    def __str__(self): 
        return self.title 

After creating this model, we need to run two commands in order to create Database for the same.

Python manage.py makemigrations
Python manage.py migrate

Now we will create a Django ModelForm for this model. Refer this article for more on modelform – Django ModelForm – Create form from Models. create a file forms.py in geeks folder,

from django import forms 
from .models import GeeksModel 
  
  
# creating a form 
class GeeksForm(forms.ModelForm): 
  
    # create meta class 
    class Meta: 
        # specify model to be used 
        model = GeeksModel 
  
        # specify fields to be used 
        fields = [ 
            "title", 
            "description", 
        ] 

Now we have everything ready for back end. Let’s create a view and template for the same. In geeks/views.py,

from django.shortcuts import render 
  
# relative import of forms 
from .models import GeeksModel 
from .forms import GeeksForm 
  
  
def create_view(request): 
    # dictionary for initial data with  
    # field names as keys 
    context ={} 
  
    # add the dictionary during initialization 
    form = GeeksForm(request.POST or None) 
    if form.is_valid(): 
        form.save() 
          
    context['form']= form 
    return render(request, "create_view.html", context) 

Create a template in templates/create_view.html,

<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
  
    <!-- Security token -->
    {% csrf_token %} 
  
    <!-- Using the formset -->
    {{ form.as_p }} 
      
    <input type="submit" value="Submit"> 
</form> 

Let’s check what is there on http://localhost:8000/
django-create-view-function-based

Now let’s try to enter data in this form,
create-view-function-enter-data

Bingo.! Create view is working and we can verify it using the instance created through the admin panel.
django-mopdel-created-create-view
This way one can create create view for a model in Django.