• models.py contains classes needed for rendering things such as forms automatically when a user loads the webpage. The form is pieced together using django with each page reload instead of already existing as an .html webpage.

• Import then use Django’s ModelForm class in your forms.py file to create a form automatically from a model object in models.py.

• Add the following form class to forms.py:

class NameForm(forms.ModelForm)

• Also add the following model class to models.py:

class Name(models.Model)

• Define properties for the model class in models.py (in this case the properties are fields in your form):

first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

• Also, Django’s ModelForm class requires a ‘fields’ or ‘exclude’ attribute so add the following underneath the form class in forms.py:

class Meta:
    model = Name # model class
    exclude = ('field_excluded',)

• Import the model and form to views.py and add a class to create a view of each form submission:

from .forms import NameForm
from .models import Name

class NameCreate(CreateView):
    model = Name     # model class
    form_class = NameForm     #form class

• Once a submission is made, the user can be redirected to their submission with this code added as a property beneath the model class. The submission is rendered in an .html page:

def get_absolute_url(self):
    return reverse('html-page-name', args=[str(self.id)])