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A Guest Page

Part of the Forms section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 19 of 20.

The organiser wants a page for each event that lists only its guests, a place to manage them. You know every piece: a URL with the event's pk, a view that finds the event, and a template loop over event.rsvps.all.

The template guest_list.html is started for you; its list is empty. A guest list belongs to one event, so read the guests through the event, never from all the RSVPs.

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Challenge

Medium
  • /events/<pk>/guests/, URL name guests, lists the event's guests with their emails, in guest_list.html.
  • Each event page links to it with Manage guests.

Press Run, open Friday Jazz Night and press Manage guests.

Try it yourself

from django.contrib import messages
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, redirect, render

from .forms import EventForm, RSVPForm
from .models import Event


def event_list(request):
    q = request.GET.get("q", "")
    events = Event.objects.all()
    if q:
        events = events.filter(title__icontains=q)
    return render(request, "events/event_list.html", {"events": events, "q": q})


def event_detail(request, pk):
    event = get_object_or_404(Event, pk=pk)
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = RSVPForm(request.POST, event=event)
        if form.is_valid():
            rsvp = form.save(commit=False)
            rsvp.event = event
            rsvp.save()
            messages.success(request, "You're on the list!")
            return redirect("events:detail", pk=event.pk)
    else:
        form = RSVPForm(event=event)
    return render(request, "events/event_detail.html", {"event": event, "form": form})


def new_event(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = EventForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            event = form.save()
            messages.success(request, "Your event was added.")
            return redirect("events:detail", pk=event.pk)
    else:
        form = EventForm()
    return render(request, "events/new_event.html", {"form": form})


def edit_event(request, pk):
    event = get_object_or_404(Event, pk=pk)
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = EventForm(request.POST, instance=event)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            messages.success(request, "Your changes were saved.")
            return redirect("events:detail", pk=event.pk)
    else:
        form = EventForm(instance=event)
    return render(request, "events/edit_event.html", {"form": form, "event": event})


def delete_event(request, pk):
    event = get_object_or_404(Event, pk=pk)
    if request.method == "POST":
        event.delete()
        messages.success(request, "The event was deleted.")
        return redirect("events:list")
    return render(request, "events/delete_event.html", {"event": event})

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