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Read from two different forms in Flask

In my page I have two different forms. I want to read the information from the first form whenever I press a button in the second form. Is this possible?
First form:
<form id="loadData" method="post" action="/loadData">
{% if day %}
Day: <input id="day" name="day" size="5px" value={{day}}>
Month: <input id="month" name="month" size="5px" value={{month}}>
Year: <input id="year" name="year" size="5px" value={{year}}>
{% else %}
Day: <input id="day" name="day" size="5px">
Month: <input id="month" name="month" size="5px">
Year: <input id="year" name="year" size="5px">
{% endif %}
.
.
.
</form>
Second form:
<form id="createFile" method="post" action="/createFile">
<button type="submit">Create</button>
</form>
By clicking the button in the second form I want to read the information in the first one to create a file containing all those information.
I tried something like
#app.route("/createFile", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def createFile():
if request.method == "POST":
day = request.form["day"]
month = request.form["month"]
year = request.form["year"]
return redirect('/')
but I can't manage to read those variable properly.

Despite corresponding in the comments i'm not entirely sure this is your end goal, but let's give it a go?
basically all i did was copy stuff from the links attached in the comment.
a.html:
<form id="form_id" action="/loadData" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="q" value="abcd">
<button type="submit">loadData</button>
</form>
<button id="createFile"> createFile </button>
<script>
function post(path, params, method = 'post') {
// The rest of this code assumes you are not using a library.
// It can be made less verbose if you use one.
const form = document.createElement('form');
form.method = method;
form.action = path;
for (const key in params) {
if (params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
const hiddenField = document.createElement('input');
hiddenField.type = 'hidden';
hiddenField.name = key;
hiddenField.value = params[key];
form.appendChild(hiddenField);
}
}
document.body.appendChild(form);
form.submit();
}
var form_1 = document.querySelector('#form_id')
document.querySelector('#createFile').addEventListener('click', (e) => {
var data = Object.fromEntries(new FormData(form_1).entries());
post("/createFile",data)
});
</script>
app.py:
from crypt import methods
from flask import Flask, request
app = Flask(__name__)
#app.route("/loadData", methods=["POST"])
def loadData():
data = request.get_data()
return f"<h1 style='color:blue'>loadData data: {data}</h1>"
#app.route("/createFile", methods=["POST"])
def createFile():
data = request.get_data()
return f"<h1 style='color:red'>createFile data: {data}</h1>"
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host='0.0.0.0')
page looks like this:
clicking on loadData:
clicking on createFile:
this whole setup is pretty convoluted and unnecessarily complex. what are you trying to achieve?

Flask: Use multiple instances of one form

My website lets a teacher create multiple questions for an assignment. Once the assignment is created, a student can come and write an answer for each question.
My problem is that only one answer is saved for each entry. For example, there are two questions in an assignment. The answer for question 1 is "asdf", the answer for question 2 is "fdsa". The content for both answers will be saved as "asdf", when they should be unique.
I have tried printing request.form and it looks like this (excluding the csrf_tokens):
('code_content', 'asdf'), ('code_content', 'fdsa'), ('submit', 'Submit Assignment')]
So I know that fdsa is still in there somewhere, but I'm not able to access it. If this is important, there were two csrf_tokens that were the exact same when printing request.form.
To get that data, I created a 'GetQuestionContent()' form for as many questions in the assignment. Like this:
questions = []
question_content_forms = []
for question in Question.query.all():
if int(question.owner) == int(assignment_id):
questions.append(question)
question_content_forms = [GetQuestionContent() for item in range(0, len(questions))]
Then, in the HTML, I write the form like this:
<form method="POST">
{% for question in questions %}
<div class="accordion-item">
<h2 class="accordion-header" id="heading{{ question.id }}">
<button class="accordion-button collapsed"
type="button"
data-bs-toggle="collapse"
data-bs-target="#collapse{{ question.id }}"
aria-expanded="false"
aria-controls="collapse{{ question.id }}">
{{ question.title }}
</button>
</h2>
<div id="collapse{{ question.id }}"
class="accordion-collapse collapse"
aria-labelledby="heading{{ question.id }}"
data-bs-parent="#questionsAccordion">
<p>
<small>
<strong>Question Description</strong>
<br>
{% if question.description != "" %}
{{ question.description|safe }}
{% else %}
<em>The assignment creator did not provide a description for this question.</em>
{% endif %}
</small>
</p>
{{ question_content_forms[loop.index - 1].hidden_tag() }}
{% if question.type == "code" %}
<div class="code-box">
{{ question_content_forms[loop.index - 1].code_content(id = "editor") }}
</div>
{% endif %}
{% if question.type == "text" %}
{{ question_content_forms[loop.index - 1].text_content|safe }}
{% endif %}
</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}
{% if current_user.account_type == "Student" %}
{{ submit_button.submit(class="btn btn-outline-success mt-3", value="Submit Assignment")}}
{% endif %}
</form>
When the user presses submit, I want to get every answer and put it into their own entry for the StudentQuestionSubmission table in my database. This is what that code looks like:
if request.method == "POST" and submit_button.data:
print(request.form)
index = 0
for question in questions:
question_to_submit = StudentQuestionSubmission(question_id = int(question.id),
student_id = int(current_user.id))
if question.type == "code":
question_to_submit.question_content = question_content_forms[index].code_content.data
elif question.type == "text":
question_to_submit.question_content = question_content_forms[index].text_content.data
print(f"\n\n{ question_content_forms[index].code_content.data } \n \
{ question_content_forms[index].text_content.data } \n\n")
index += 1
db.session.add(question_to_submit)
assignment_to_submit = StudentAssignmentSubmission(assignment_id = int(assignment_id),
student_id = int(current_user.id),
has_submitted = True,
submission_date = date.today())
db.session.add(assignment_to_submit)
db.session.commit()
flash(f"'{assignment.name}' has been succesfully submitted.")
return redirect(url_for('classroom_assignments_list', class_id = class_id, paper_id = paper_id))
You can see that I print the data of the textboxes. It will output 'asdf' on both iterations even if I wrote something entirely different for question 2.
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
EDIT: 'hackily' getting the content from multiple instances of the same form using request.form.to_dict(flat=False)['your_form_field']
Here's the new code:
if request.method == "POST" and submit_button.data:
code_content = request.form.to_dict(flat=False)['code_content']
text_content = request.form.to_dict(flat=False)['text_content']
code_content_index = 0
text_content_index = 0
for question in questions:
question_to_submit = StudentQuestionSubmission(question_id = int(question.id),
student_id = int(current_user.id))
if question.type == "code":
question_to_submit.question_content = code_content[code_content_index]
code_content_index += 1
elif question.type == "text":
question_to_submit.question_content = text_content[text_content_index]
text_content_index += 1
print(f"\n\n{ question_to_submit.question_content } \n\n")
db.session.add(question_to_submit)
assignment_to_submit = StudentAssignmentSubmission(assignment_id = int(assignment_id),
student_id = int(current_user.id),
has_submitted = True,
submission_date = date.today())
db.session.add(assignment_to_submit)
db.session.commit()
flash(f"'{assignment.name}' has been succesfully submitted.")
return redirect(url_for('classroom_assignments_list', class_id = class_id, paper_id = paper_id))

My suggestion is not to create multiple forms, but to dynamically create one form for all the necessary questions.
In this case it is possible to assign a unique id to each field, which indicates that it belongs to the question.
The following example shows you a possible implementation.
An answer field is added to the form for each question, which has the id of the question in its name. Thus, the respective question can be assigned when rendering and querying the input data.
Flask
from flask import (
Flask,
render_template,
request
)
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_wtf import FlaskForm
from wtforms import TextAreaField, SubmitField
from wtforms.validators import DataRequired
import random
app = Flask(__name__)
app.secret_key = 'your secret here'
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
class Question(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
type = db.Column(db.String)
owner = db.Column(db.Integer)
title = db.Column(db.String)
description = db.Column(db.Text)
with app.app_context():
db.drop_all()
db.create_all()
qs = [Question(
type=random.choice(['code', 'text']),
owner=1,
title=f'Question {i+1}',
description=f'Your description here.'
) for i in range(3)]
db.session.add_all(qs)
db.session.commit()
def form_factory(qs):
class F(FlaskForm):
submit = SubmitField('Submit')
for q in qs:
field = TextAreaField(
q.type.title(),
validators=[
# DataRequired()
],
)
setattr(F, f'q-{q.id}', field)
return F
#app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def index():
questions = Question.query.filter_by(owner=1).all()
form = form_factory(questions)(request.form)
if form.validate_on_submit():
for q in questions:
field = getattr(form, f'q-{q.id}')
print(f'Question-{q.id}\n{field.data}\n')
return render_template('index.html', **locals())
HTML (templates/index.html)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Index</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#5.2.0-beta1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-0evHe/X+R7YkIZDRvuzKMRqM+OrBnVFBL6DOitfPri4tjfHxaWutUpFmBp4vmVor" crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container my-3">
<form method="post">
{{ form.hidden_tag() }}
<div class="accordion mb-3" id="accordionExample">
{% for q in questions -%}
<div class="accordion-item">
<h2 class="accordion-header" id="heading-{{loop.index}}">
<button
class="accordion-button collapsed"
type="button"
data-bs-toggle="collapse"
data-bs-target="#collapse-{{loop.index}}"
aria-expanded="false"
aria-controls="collapse-{{loop.index}}"
>
{{ q.title }}
</button>
</h2>
<div
id="collapse-{{loop.index}}"
class="accordion-collapse collapse"
aria-labelledby="heading-{{loop.index}}"
data-bs-parent="#accordionExample"
>
<div class="accordion-body">
<div class="mb-3">
{{ q.description|safe }}
</div>
{% set field = form|attr('q-{}'.format(q.id)) -%}
<div>
{{ field.label(class_='form-label') }}
{{ field(class_='form-control' + ('', ' editor')[q.type=='code']) }}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endfor -%}
</div>
<div class="d-grid gap-2">
{{ form.submit(class_='btn btn-primary') }}
</div>
</form>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#5.2.0-beta1/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-pprn3073KE6tl6bjs2QrFaJGz5/SUsLqktiwsUTF55Jfv3qYSDhgCecCxMW52nD2" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>
</html>

How to load content into div element with flask

I'd like to fill / update a div area in index.html with the result from the python function, but I don't know how to do this. I know there are several other questions with a similar topic but I couldn't succeed with them because they were too specific. I'm pulling my hair out over this.
Would be someone so nice and guide me?
This is a function in main.py:
#app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html')
#app.route('/stat/')
def stat():
a = 2
b = 10
return(str(a) + ' is not ' + str(b))
this is the index.html:
<body>
<form action="/stat/">
<button type="submit" id="btn1" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">check stat</button>
</form>
<div id="stat_content"></div>
</body>

As #S3DEV points out, you will need to pass the string to the template via an additional argument. For example, we might do something like this:
#app.route('/stat/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) # EDIT
def stat():
a = 2
b = 10
text = f"{a} is not equal to {b}"
return render_template("index.html", text=text)
In the code above, we set text to be the string to be passed to the template. In the template, we will be able to access this string variable as text.
Now when index.html is rendered, it will be looking for the text variable that is passed in from the Flask application. This is taken care of by Jinja 2, which is the rendering engine used by Flask.
<div id="stat_content">
{% if text %}
<h2>No text to show</h2>
{% else %}
<h2>{{ text }}</h2>
{% endif %}
</div>
Using Jinja 2 syntax with curly braces, we first check if the text variable exists or not; if it does not exist, we render the message, "No text to show." This will happen when we first route into "/", or the default home route of the Flask app.
Once the user fills out the form, however, they will be redirected to "/stat/", at which point we will now have generated text and passed it back to index.html via the render_template("index.html", text=text) function call. Then, when Jinja 2 renders index.html, it will see that text was passed over from the Flask app and display that message, namely that 2 is not equal to 10.

You want this initiated from the button right? Here's how to achieve that with ajax...
<body>
<form action="/stat/">
<button type="submit" onclick="GetData();" id="btn1" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">check stat</button>
</form>
<div id="stat_content"></div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetData() {
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE) { // XMLHttpRequest.DONE == 4
if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("stat_content").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
}
else if (xmlhttp.status == 400) {
alert('There was an error 400');
}
else {
alert('something else other than 200 was returned');
}
}
};
xmlhttp.open("GET", "/stat/", true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>

to update the content of that div, i think (based on your logic) you need to perform an ajax call to your stat function with the two parameters a and b submitted via POST request:
<form class="form-stat needs-validation" novalidate role="form">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="a" value="">
<div class="invalid-feedback"></div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="b" value="">
<div class="invalid-feedback"></div>
</div>
<button type="submit" id="btn1" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">check stat</button>
</form>
<div id="stat_content">Output: ?</div>
put the javascript code below after jquery call
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
"use strict";
$('.form-stat').submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: "{{ url_for('stat') }}",
type: 'POST',
cache: false,
dataType: 'json',
data: $('.form-stat').serialize(),
success: function(data) {
// console.log(data);
$('.form-stat input[name=a]').val(''); // reset field
$('.form-stat input[name=b]').val(''); // reset field
$('#stat_content').html(data); // update div with the returned vlue
}
});
});
});
</script>
and you have to make little change to your stat function so you can submit dynamically the two parameters via POST like so :
from flask import Flask, request, make_response
import json
#app.route('/stat', methods=['POST'])
def stat():
if request.method == 'POST':
a = request.form['a']
b = request.form['b']
# check if inputs are valid to work with ..
res = str(a) + ' is not ' + str(b) if a != b else str(a) + ' and ' + str(b) + ' are equal.'
resp = make_response(json.dumps(res))
resp.status_code = 200
return resp

Extracting a list of lists from input box and checkbox values in flask

This is the my index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>
function add_field()
{
var total_text=document.getElementsByClassName("input_text");
total_text=total_text.length+1;
field_div = document.getElementById("field_div");
new_input = "<li id='input_text"+total_text+
"_wrapper'><input type='text' class='input_text' name='input_text[]' id='input_text"+
total_text+"' placeholder='Enter Text'>"+
"<label><input name='input_text"+total_text+"' id='input_text[]' type='radio' value='1'>1</label>"+
"<label><input name='input_text"+total_text+"' type='radio' id='input_text[]' value='2'>2</label>"+
"</li>";
field_div.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend',new_input);
}
function remove_field()
{
var total_text=document.getElementsByClassName("input_text");
document.getElementById("input_text"+total_text.length+"_wrapper").remove();
}
</script>
{% extends "bootstrap/base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<div class = "container">
<h1>Give the words</h1>
<form action='/results' method="post">
<div id="wrapper">
<input type="button" value="Add TextBox" onclick="add_field();">
<input type="button" value="Remove TextBox" onclick="remove_field();">
<ol id="field_div">
</ol>
</div>
<input type='submit' value='Select'>
</form>
</div>
{% endblock %}
My views.py is as follows:
from flask import render_template, request, url_for
from app import app
from .translit import *
#app.route('/')
def search():
return render_template('index.html')
#app.route('/results', methods = ['GET', 'POST'])
def results():
if request.method == 'GET':
return redirect(url_for('/'))
else:
values = getperm(request.form.getlist('input_text[]'))
print(request.form.getlist('input_text[]'))
return render_template('results.html',
values = values)
Right now, I can extract the input from all the input texts as a list?
How do I get the values form each <li> as a list thereby creating a list of lists?
As an example,
if i type
a 1
b 2
I should be able to extract the result as [[a,1],[b,2]]

We should manipulate the value attribute of checkbox.
Added checkbox with each textbox.
app.py:
from flask import Flask, render_template, url_for, request
app = Flask(__name__)
#app.route('/')
def search():
return render_template('dynamic_input.html')
#app.route('/results', methods = ['GET', 'POST'])
def results():
if request.method == 'GET':
return redirect(url_for('search'))
else:
input_values = request.form.getlist('input_text[]')
checkbox_values = request.form.getlist('input_checkbox')
return render_template('dynamic_input_results.html',
input_values = input_values,
checkbox_values = checkbox_values)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug = True)
dynamic_input.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>
function add_field()
{
var total_text=document.getElementsByClassName("input_text");
total_text=total_text.length+1;
field_div = document.getElementById("field_div");
new_input = "<li id='input_text"+total_text+"_wrapper'>";
new_input += "<input type='text' class='input_text' name='input_text[]' id='input_text"+
total_text+"' placeholder='Enter Text'>";
new_input += "<input type='checkbox' name='input_checkbox' value='"+total_text+"' id='input_checkbox"+
total_text+"'";
new_input += "</li>";
field_div.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend',new_input);
}
function remove_field()
{
var total_text=document.getElementsByClassName("input_text");
document.getElementById("input_text"+total_text.length+"_wrapper").remove();
}
</script>
<div class = "container">
<h1>Give the words</h1>
<form action='/results' method="post">
<div id="wrapper">
<input type="button" value="Add TextBox" onclick="add_field();">
<input type="button" value="Remove TextBox" onclick="remove_field();">
<ol id="field_div">
</ol>
</div>
<input type='submit' value='Select'>
</form>
</div>
dynamic_input_results.html:
<ul>
{% for value in input_values %}
<li>{{value}}</li>
{% endfor %}
<hr>
{% for value in checkbox_values %}
<li>{{value}}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
Output:

probably not what you were hoping for but this might do the trick if your result list is small enough
#assuming your result list is ll
alplhabet = list(string.ascii_lowercase)
if len(ll)<=len(alplhabet):
res = []
for i in map(None,alplhabet[:len(ll)],ll):
res.append(list(i))
return res

Django basic form - read a variable from views.py

I'm trying to implement a form of a single field in Django. The objective is to pass an integer variable (counter) to the views.py file. The template is completely custom, the value of the variable "counter" is shown in the screen while it can be increased/decreased using two buttons.
I can't manage to read this variable from my views.py file, and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. This is what I've done:
Template file:
<form method="POST" action="{% url 'animo' ejercicio=ejercicio %}">{% csrf_token %}
<p class="mensaje">{{pregunta_valoracion}}</p>
<div id="contadormin">
<input type="button" id="number-change-button" value="-" onclick="subtract()" name="counter"/>
<div id="minutos">
<p id="counter">0 {{unidad}}</p>
</div><script>
var i = 0;
var uni = {{unidad}};
function add() {
document.getElementById('counter').value = ++i;
document.getElementById('counter').innerHTML = i;
}
function subtract() {
if (i> 0){
document.getElementById('counter').value = --i;
document.getElementById('counter').innerHTML = i;
}
}
</script>
<input type="button" id="number-change-button" value="+" onclick="add()" name="counter" />
</div>
<input type="submit" class="save btn btn-default" value= "HECHO"</input>
</form>
Views file:
if request.method == 'POST':
veces = request.POST.get('counter', '')
Any ideas?

The only items with name="counter" in your template are the + and - buttons. You don't actually have a field containing the counter value itself, so there's no way it can be submitted in the form.
Remove the "counter" names from those buttons, and instead of putting the counter value in a <p> element, put it in an <input name="counter">.