You have to create a new view that handles the form and sends an email when it's successfully submitted. Edit the views.py file of your blog application and add the following code to it:
from .forms import EmailPostForm def post_share(request, post_id): # Retrieve post by id post = get_object_or_404(Post, id=post_id, status='published') if request.method == 'POST': # Form was submitted form = EmailPostForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): # Form fields passed validation cd = form.cleaned_data # ... send email else: form = EmailPostForm() return render(request, 'blog/post/share.html', {'post': post, 'form': form})
This view works as follows:
- We define the post_share view that takes the request object and the post_id ...
