Incoming!

 Incoming!

Today, we're going to learn how to deal with data from forms in Flask.

👉 To start, I've added yesterday's HTML code for my form in main.py for you already. (You're welcome!) Go take a look!

👉 However, at the moment, the app.route() has no method associated with it, so I need to create a route for this page to receive the data.

First, I need a new import: request.

Then I create the app.route - I also need to add an extra argument to specify the methods being received. At the moment, that's just 'post', but it does need to be ALL CAPS - POST.

Finally I define the process() subroutine that returns request.form

👉 Here's the new code on its own:

from Flask import Flask, request

app.route('/process', methods=["POST"])

def process():

  return request.form

👉 And here it is as part of the whole code:

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)

app.route("/process", methods=["POST"])

def process():

  return request.form

  

@app.route('/')

def index():

  page = """<form method = "post" action="/process">

    <p>Name: <input type="text" name="username" required> </p>

    <p>Email: <input type="Email" name="email"> </p>

    <p>Website: <input type="url" name="website"> </p>

    <p>Age: <input type="number" name="age"> </p>

    <input type="hidden" name="userID" value="232"> </p>

    <p>

      Fave Baldy: 

      <select name="baldies">

        <option>David</option>

        <option>Jean Luc Picard</option>

        <option>Yul Brynner</option>

      </select>

    </p>

    <button type="submit">Save Data</button>

  </form>

    

    

    """

  return page

app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=81)

This will get us the data from the form in a dictionary format, like this: