Basic view/form code

main/migrations/0002_auto_20200906_0324.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 3.1.1 on 2020-09-06 03:24
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('main', '0001_initial'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name='thought',
+            name='posted',
+            field=models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True),
+        ),
+    ]

main/models.py

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ from django.db import models
 class Thought(models.Model):
     text = models.CharField(max_length=140)
     extended_text = models.TextField(blank=True)
-    posted = models.DateTimeField()
+    posted = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
     timezone_offset = models.IntegerField()  # The number of minutes behind UTC we were when this was posted
 

main/templates/whispermaphone/post.html

@@ -8,10 +8,14 @@
 
 <form action="{% url 'post'%}" method="post">
     {% csrf_token %}
-    <label>
-        <textarea></textarea>
-    </label>
+    <textarea name="text" id="text"></textarea>
+    <textarea name="extended_text" id="extended_text"></textarea>
+    <input type="hidden" name="timezone_offset" id="timezone_offset">
+
+    <input type="submit">
 </form>
 
+
+
 </body>
 </html>

main/views.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from .models import Thought
 
@@ -8,9 +9,16 @@ def index(request):
 
 def post(request):
     if request.method == "POST":
-        # offset = request["POST"].timezone_offset
+        try:
+            if not request.COOKIES["password"] == "ChromaticWave":
+                return HttpResponse("Unauthorized", status=401)
+        except KeyError:
+            return HttpResponse("Unauthorized", status=401)
 
-        # Thought(text=, extended_text=, posted=, timezone_offset=, )
-        pass
-    else:
-        return render(request, "whispermaphone/post.html", {})
+        Thought(
+            text=request.POST["text"],
+            extended_text=request.POST["extended_text"],
+            timezone_offset=request.POST["timezone_offset"]
+        ).save()
+
+    return render(request, "whispermaphone/post.html", {})

whispermaphone/urls.py

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ from django.urls import path
 from main import views
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    path("", views.index),
-    path("post", views.post),
+    path("", views.index, name="index"),
+    path("post", views.post, name="post"),
 ]