Submitting Data From A Form To Django View

When I open the html file it displays as expected and when I enter data in the text box and submit, It redirects me to localhost/myapp/output/ but why is the data I enter in the te

Solution 1:

If your goal is only getting the text on the form:

change your view to

def return_data(request):
    return HttpResponse('entered text:' + request.POST['text'])

edit your urls

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', views.index),
    url(r'^output/$', views.return_data)
)

and your template

<form action="output/" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
...
</form>

Solution 2:

you'd better review data submitting in forms. with two methods you can submit forms data with your request to the forms action attribute:

GET: like http://www.google.com/?q=keyword+to+search you can access the "keyword+to+search" by:

request.GET['q']
#or better is:
request.GET.get('q', None)

the text arguement is not passed to url pattern. so not accessible in this way

POST: in this method the data is not in request url. so to access the forms data submittin by POST method try this

request.POST['text'] (
#or better is: 
request.POST.get('text', None)

but it is highly recommended to use Django forms instead of direct accessing from request.POST or request.GET

so check this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/