Django python contact email form error post not allowed 405

Question

I don't know why i get this error in the bash:

Method Not Allowed (POST): /curriculum/ [14/Sep/2017 20:47:24] "POST /curriculum/ HTTP/1.1" 405 0

views.py:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView from Profile.forms import ContactForm from django.core.mail import send_mail, BadHeaderError, EmailMessage from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect from django.shortcuts import render, redirect from django.template import Context from django.template.loader import get_template



# Create your views here. class HomePageView(TemplateView):
    def get(self, request, **kwargs):
        return render(request, 'index.html', context=None)

class ProjectsPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'projects.html'

class TutorialsPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'tutorials.html'

class ArticlesPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'articles.html'

class LanguagesPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'languages.html'

class VideosPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'videos.html'

class CurriculumPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'curriculum.html'


def post(self, request, **kwargs):
    form_class = ContactForm

    # new logic!
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = form_class(data=request.POST)

        if form.is_valid():
            contact_name = request.POST.get(
                'contact'
            , '')
            contact_email = request.POST.get(
                'email'
            , '')
            form_content = request.POST.get('message', '')

            # Email the profile with the 
            # contact information
            template = get_template('templates/contact_template.txt')
            context = Context({
                'contact_name': contact_name,
                'contact_email': contact_email,
                'form_content': form_content,
            })
            content = template.render(context)

            email = EmailMessage(
                "New contact form submission",
                content,
                "Your website" +'',
                ['[email protected]'],
                headers = {'Reply-To': contact_email }
            )
            email.send()
            return redirect('curriculum')

    return render(request, 'PageJMMA/Profile/templates/index.html', {
        'form': form_class,
    })

url.py:

from django.conf.urls import url from Profile import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^curriculum/$', views.CurriculumPageView.as_view(), name='curriculum')    ]

forms.py:

from django import forms

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    contact_name = forms.CharField(required=True)
    contact_email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    content = forms.CharField(
        required=True,
        widget=forms.Textarea
    )

curriculum.html (only the form part):

<div class="w3-col m6">
        <form method="POST" action="" role="form">
          <div class="w3-row-padding" style="margin:0 -16px 8px -16px">
            <div class="w3-half">               
              <input class="w3-input w3-border" type="text" placeholder="Name" required name="contact">
            </div>
            <div class="w3-half">
              <input class="w3-input w3-border" type="text" placeholder="Email" required name="email">
            </div>
          </div>
          <input class="w3-input w3-border" type="text" placeholder="Message" required name="message">
              {% csrf_token %}
              {{ form.as_p }}              
              <button class="w3-button w3-black w3-section w3-right" type="submit">SEND</button>
        </form>
      </div>'

Answer 1

Your post function should be inside TemplateView to override default post of TemplateView. Generic TemplateView is not meant to be used like this but anyway overriding post method should work.

class CurriculumPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'curriculum.html'


    def post(self, request, **kwargs):
        form_class = ContactForm

        # new logic!
        if request.method == 'POST':
            form = form_class(data=request.POST)

            if form.is_valid():
                contact_name = request.POST.get(
                    'contact'
                , '')
                contact_email = request.POST.get(
                    'email'
                , '')
                form_content = request.POST.get('message', '')

                # Email the profile with the 
                # contact information
                template = get_template('templates/contact_template.txt')
                context = Context({
                    'contact_name': contact_name,
                    'contact_email': contact_email,
                    'form_content': form_content,
                })
                content = template.render(context)

                email = EmailMessage(
                    "New contact form submission",
                    content,
                    "Your website" +'',
                    ['[email protected]'],
                    headers = {'Reply-To': contact_email }
                )
                email.send()
                return redirect('curriculum')

        return render(request, 'PageJMMA/Profile/templates/index.html', {
            'form': form_class,
        })

Also I would recommend rather using FormView