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I have been making a website containing a listview and formview. I have a form.py which looks like this :
from django import forms
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField(required=True)
email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
message = forms.CharField(required=True)
and the views.py :
from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import ContactForm
from django.views.generic import ListView
from django.views.generic.edit import FormMixin
from blog.models import Post
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
class PostListAndFormView(FormMixin,ListView):
queryset = Post.objects.all().order_by("-date")[:2]
template_name = 'personal/index.html'
form_class = ContactForm
success_url = 'personal/index.html'
This view also deals with a Listview functionality which you can ignore.
My HTML template is:
<form action="/" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
<input type="submit" value="SEND MESSAGE" />
</form>
Finally urls.py :
from django.conf.urls import url,include
from . import views
from homepage.views import PostListAndFormView
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', PostListAndFormView.as_view(), name='PostListAndFormView'),
]
What I want to do here is take the data from the form and send an email to my address with the entered data. Someone help me do this.

Have a look at the documentation, check the methods of the FormMixin and pick the one that fits.
form_valid() might be an option.
in python3:
def form_valid(self, form):
# do your stuff
# call the parents class method
return super().form_valid(form)
This is a quite common approach when using class based views. They usually provide a bunch of attributes and methods - sometimes it is enough to just change some attributes, which change the behavior of the methods (e.g. success_url). But often you will need to override some of there methods. It is always a good idea to read their code in this case, cause you need to decide whether you want to call the mixins implementation at the beginning, at the end (as in the example) or if you really want to override it and provide their logic on your own...