Django - Saving contents of a form into a database - django-models

Question

class InitialForm(forms.Form):
Teacher_Name = forms.CharField(label='Teacher Name')
Subject = forms.CharField(label = 'Subject')
Question = forms.CharField(label = 'What is the first question?')
Topic = forms.CharField(label = 'What topic is this on?')
Option1_Q = forms.CharField(label = 'What is the first option?')
Option2_Q = forms.CharField(label = 'What is the second option?')
Option3_Q = forms.CharField(label = 'What is the third option?')
Option4_Q = forms.CharField(label = 'What is the fourth option?')
Answer_Q = forms.CharField(label = 'Which option is the correct option?', widget=forms.Select(choices=Options))
class Questions(models.Model):
testID = AutoSlugField(unique=True)
teacherID = models.ForeignKey(Teacher, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
studentID = models.ForeignKey(Student, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
Subject = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Q = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Topic = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Option1_Q = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Option2_Q = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Option3_Q = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
Option4_Q = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
AnswerQ = models.CharField(max_length=1000)
def teachertests(request):
form = InitialForm()
if request.method == "POST":
form = InitialForm(request.POST)
form.save()
return render(request, 'teachertests.html', {'form':form})
Hey, pretty new to coding in general and wanted to save the contents of the form into the database and then display specific fields from the form, not sure what I had done wrong, could anyone help?

Answer 1

When you use a form it is important to add the form.is_valid() since from what you see you did not indicate in your form if there are fields that are not mandatory with the require=False as long as it is not valid it will not be saved
def teachertests(request):
form = InitialForm()
if request.method == "POST":
form = InitialForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
data_form = form.cleaned_data
question = Question()
question.Option1_Q = data_form.get('Option1_Q')
# ....... all fields form
question.save()
return render(request, 'teachertests.html', {'form':form})