Django - taking values from POST request

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I have the following django template  http   IP admin start  is assigned to a hypothetical view called view       for source in sources       lt tr gt       lt td gt    source    lt  td gt        lt td gt       lt form action   admin start   method  post  gt           csrf token           lt input type  hidden  name     source title     gt         lt input type  submit  value  Start  class  btn btn-primary  gt       lt  form gt       lt  td gt      lt  tr gt     endfor      sources is the objects all   of a Django model being referenced in the view  Whenever a  Start  submit input is clicked  I want the  start  view to use the    source title   data in a function before returning a rendered page  How do I gather information POSTed  in this case  in the hidden input  into Python variables

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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  quot username quot    where  quot username quot  in parenthesis is the name of the Charfield  the variale name i e  username   forms Charfield max length 64

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Read about request objects that your views receive   https   docs djangoproject com en dev ref request-response  httprequest-objects  Also your hidden field needs a reliable name and then a value    lt input type  hidden  name  title  value     source title     gt    Then in a view   request POST get  title

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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

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