Introduction

So far, the views we have been building for Django have been one-way only. Our browser is retrieving data from the views we have written but it does not send any data back to them. In Chapter 4, Introduction to Django Admin, we created model instances using the Django admin and submitting forms, but those were using views built into Django, not created by us. In this chapter, we will use the Django Forms library to start accepting user-submitted data. The data will be provided through GET requests in the URL parameters, and/or POST requests in the body of the request. But before we get into the details, first let us understand what are forms in Django.