Registration View

Okay, we have a form, but we're not using it. 0:00 Since we're using Flask-WTF, we have a couple of really nice convenience methods. 0:04 Let's write our register view and 0:08 explore what all we have available when we use forms. 0:09 Okay, after all that work in forms, we want to be able to render this one, 0:13 we want to send it to a template. 0:17 So let's go over here to our app.py and 0:18 we're going to import a couple of more things. 0:22 It's gonna get kinda long so I'm gonna put parentheses around this too cuz, you know, 0:24 we're gonna be importing a lot of stuff. 0:28 So we needed to bring in our render_template cuz we know we're gonna 0:30 render a template. 0:33 Let's bring in flash cuz we're probably gonna wanna send out some flash messages. 0:35 Let's bring in redirect because after the form is submitted correctly, with, 0:39 you know, the appropriate values, we probably want to redirect back or 0:43 send them to somewhere else. 0:46 And then if we're gonna do redirects, 0:48 we're gonna need url_for so that we can bring in some stuff. 0:50 And we didn't go to a new line yet, but I bet we will later. 0:55 Okay, so we've imported our models. 0:58 Let's go ahead and import our forms, too. 1:01 Again, we're gonna have more than one form, so 1:03 we'll just import the whole module. 1:06 Let's go add this route. 1:08 And it's going to be app.route and let's say register and our methods for 1:11 this are going to be get and post, because we want them to be able to load the view, 1:17 and that way they'll be able to see the template and they'll see the form. 1:23 And then we also want them to be able to post back to the view so 1:27 it processes the form. 1:30 So, let's say def register, I'm not going to take anything. 1:32 And then we're gonna create a form. 1:37 And this is going to be forms.registerForm. 1:39 And we don't have to send them any information to registerForm. 1:43 Flask and Flask-WTF are smart enough that they know like, oh, 1:47 some information came in through the post, let's go ahead and send that. 1:51 Speaking of that being smart, we're gonna add another line here, 1:55 if form.validate on submit. 2:00 So what this method does, it belongs to the form, and it detects that they have 2:02 valid, or, not validated, sorry, they've submitted the form, it's been posted. 2:07 And we run the validation, remember all the validators that we added? 2:12 And it comes back as either, everything is good, or things are missing. 2:15 So that's all we're gonna deal with here. 2:20 So if it comes back and it's valid, then we're gonna flash up a message, and 2:23 let's say yay, you registered! 2:27 And the something I'm actually gonna add here that we didn't do the last time that 2:30 we did flash messages, is I'm gonna add in the message category. 2:34 Though the category for this is going to be success. 2:39 These will be more important, and more obvious, a little later on, 2:43 when we, finish building out all of our HTML and we start showing flash messages. 2:46 Okay, so things are good. 2:51 We've flashed up this message, and 2:52 then we're going to create model.user.create_user. 2:54 We're gonna create a user. 2:57 Now, how do we get the data out of our form? 2:59 So we're gonna say, name, username is equal to form.username.data. 3:02 And we're gonna say email is equal to form.email.data. 3:08 And password is equal to form.password.data. 3:13 Okay? So 3:17 we're just pulling out these individual fields. 3:18 And then we're going to return a redirect URL for index so 3:21 we should probably create an index view here in a minute. 3:26 And then regardless of what goes on, 3:29 if we don't do the redirect, then we're going to render the template and 3:33 we'll render register.html and we'll pass it our form. 3:37 All right. So let's talk about templates, 3:41 because we need to make a template. 3:43 Actually let's go ahead and make, just real quick, at.route, forward slash, 3:45 just at home page, index will return hey. 3:50 All right. 3:54 We'll do a lot more on the index page later, just for 3:54 right now though we'll just have it send back some text. 3:57 So templates. 4:00 We need to make a new folder that's named template. 4:01 And then inside there we need to make a new file that is register.html. 4:05 So let's think about this. 4:11 I don't have a layout.html yet. 4:13 I don't wanna bother with making one just yet, so let's just start writing our form. 4:15 Method equals post. 4:20 And action equals here, which that just redirects back to here. 4:22 And I'll give it a class of form, think that's needed in our CSS. 4:28 So form has been passed in and we need to render this form in some way. 4:33 So, the first thing we need to do, is render this form.hidden tag. 4:38 So what this does is it creates a div that has a style attribute so it's hidden. 4:44 It, it won't show up in your browser. 4:49 And inside of there, is where it puts whatever hidden tags are in your form. 4:53 So for instance, we're going to have a CSRF, or C surf tag, that's inserted into 4:58 this, to make things nice and safe, so our forms have to be submitted from our site. 5:03 That'll get rendered in here. 5:08 If we need other forms to be hidden, or fields to be hidden, then, 5:09 they would go in here, as well. 5:14 We don't have any, but if your, later work does. 5:15 Okay. So now, let's say for field in form. 5:19 These are our fields. 5:24 Div class equals field. 5:27 And inside that, if field.errors, so 5:29 if there's any errors on the field, 5:34 then for error in field.errors, 5:38 div class equals notification error. 5:43 And then we wanna print out the error. 5:48 We gotta end our for, we gotta end our if. 5:50 And let's, let's take these two and have those end. 5:56 And then we have to do field, and then we want to render 5:59 a placeholder inside the field, and we want that to be the field's label, 6:04 and then the text that belong to that field's label. 6:08 And so, for example, we have our, let me finish this, I'll come back over here. 6:12 If we look at forms.py, our username field, 6:17 we have this label here of username, so here in register.html 6:21 this placeholder is going to be username because that's the text of our label. 6:26