Re: Contact us form

On Wednesday, 1 June 2011 08:01:33 UTC+1, Pulkit Mehrotra wrote:

I am trying to make a contact us form which will send a mail to me using the smtp server .It will load the thank you page after form submission .Everything is working something ,the thank you page is loading and i am not getting any errors ,but i am not getting the mails.

here is my views.py file.:
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.template import RequestContext
def contacts(request):
    errors=[]
    if request.method=='POST':
        if not request.POST.get('subject',''):
            errors.append('Enter a subject')
        if not request.POST.get('email') and '@' not in request.POST['email']:
            errors.append('Enter a valid email address')
        if not errors:
            send_mail(
                request.POST['subject'],
                request.POST['message'],
                request.POST.get('email','mehrotr...@gmail.com'),
                ['mehrotr...@gmail.com'],
            )
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/contact/thankyou/')
    return render_to_response('form.html',{
        'errors':errors,
        'subject':request.POST.get('subject',''),
        'email':request.POST.get('email',''),
        },context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Why don't you use an actual Django form? It will take care of the validation for you.

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