Once a user had logged into my site he could write a post and update it.
Then I was making progress in adding functionality which allowed people to make comments. I was at the stage where I could add comments from the back end and they would be accurately displayed on the front end.
Now when I try and update posts I get an error message.
I assume it is because there is a foreign key linking the comments class to the post class. I tried Googling the problem and looking on StackOverflow but I wasn't entirely convinced the material I was reading was remotely related to my problem. I am struggling to fix the issue because I barely even understand / know what the issue is.
# Create your models here.
class Post(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
content = models.TextField()
date_posted = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now())
author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
url= models.SlugField(max_length=500, unique=True, blank=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.url= slugify(self.title)
super().save(*args, **kwargs)
def __str__(self):
return self.title
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse('article_detail', kwargs={'slug': self.slug})
class Comment(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post,on_delete=models.CASCADE,related_name='comments')
name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
email = models.EmailField()
body = models.TextField()
created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
class Meta:
ordering = ['created_on']
def __str__(self):
return 'Comment {} by {}'.format(self.body, self.name)
You need to import the slugify(..)
function [Django-doc]:
from django.db import models
from django.utils.text import slugify
class Post(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
content = models.TextField()
date_posted = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now())
author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
url= models.SlugField(max_length=500, unique=True, blank=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.url= slugify(self.title)
super().save(*args, **kwargs)
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