Writing the Code for the Views

In this lesson, we add the code for the home page view. To do this, we need to perform the following steps:

1. We need to submit the data received from the form to the database if the form inputs are valid.
2. We need a way to present the form data on the home page.
3. We need to display the empty form for users to enter a new data entry. This has been implemented before, so we’ll cover the first two.

The code for the views

Here’s the complete code for the views:

We add some code in the views.py file. Line 11: We check if the form has been submitted.

Line 13: If it has been submitted, we get data from the form the user filled.

Line 16: We check if the form the user filled is valid using the is_valid() function. ...