Trying to get two variables via a html form that will be used in other functions later in the code. For now i just want to print the two variables as a test
index.html is:
<html>
<form action="{{ url_for("user_input")}}" method="post">
<label for="a_site">A Site:</label>
<input type="text" id="a_site" name="a_site" placeholder="a_site">
<label for="z_site">Z Site:</label>
<input type="text" id="z_site" name="z_site" placeholder="z_site">
<button> <a href="{{ url_for("results")}}">Submit </a></button>
</form>
</html>
results.html is:
<html>
<body>
{{ a_site_name }} <br>
{{ z_site_name }}
</body>
</html>
Python code
from flask import Flask,render_template,request
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/', methods =['GET', 'POST'])
def user_input():
a_site_name = request.form.get('a_site')
z_site_name = request.form.get('z_site')
return render_template('index.html')
@app.route('/results')
def results():
return render_template('results.html',
a_site_name=a_site_name,
z_site_name=z_site_name
)
def main():
app.run(host='localhost', port=8080)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
When i click "Submit" in the browser i get a 500 error, in the flask console the error is NameError: name 'a_site_name' is not defined which makes sense since the results function doesn't know what those two vars are...
I'd usually do something like
a_site_name, z_site_name = user_input() under my main function but that doesn't seem to work either...
So how can i get this to work? Those two vars will end up being used to do a bunch of other python functions which will be invisible to the user, with the end results being displayed on the browser
