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# Part 8 - Updating and Deleting Posts

## Getting Started

By now, all of the logic we have gone over so far will take you a long way so let's just finish up quickly with updating and deleting a posts. We'll assume you are comfortable with what we have learned so far so we will run through this faster since this is just more of what were in the previous parts.

## Update Controller Method

Let's just make an update method on the `PostController`:

{% code title="app/http/controllers/PostController.py" %}

```python
def update(self):
    post = Post.find(request().param('id'))
    
    return view('update', {'post': post})
    
def store(self):
    post = Post.find(request().param('id'))
    
    post.title = request().input('title')
    post.body = request().input('body')
    
    post.save()
    
    return 'post updated'
```

{% endcode %}

Since we are more comfortable with controllers we can go ahead and make two at once. We made one that shows a view that shows a form to update a post and then one that actually updates the post with the database.

## Create The View

```
$ craft view update
```

{% code title="resources/templates/update.html" %}

```markup
<form action="/post/{{ post.id }}/update" action="POST">
    {{ csrf_field|safe }}

    <label for="">Title</label>
    <input type="text" name="title"><br>

    <label>Body</label>
    <textarea name="body"></textarea><br>

    <input type="submit" value="Update">
</form>
```

{% endcode %}

## Create The Routes:

Remember we made 2 controller methods so let's attach them to a route here:

{% code title="routes/web.py" %}

```python
Get().route('/post/@id/update', 'PostController@update'),
Post().route('/post/@id/update', 'PostController@store'),
```

{% endcode %}

That should be it! We can now update our posts.

## Delete Method&#x20;

Let's expand a bit and made a delete method.

{% code title="app/http/controllers/PostController.py" %}

```python
def delete(self):
    post = Post.find(request().param('id'))
    
    post.delete()
    
    return 'post deleted'
```

{% endcode %}

## Make the route:

{% code title="routes/web.py" %}

```python
Get().route('/post/@id/delete', 'PostController@delete'),
```

{% endcode %}

Notice we used a `GET` route here, It would be much better to use a `POST` method but for simplicity sake will assume you can create one by now. We will just add a link to our update method which will delete the post.

## Update the Template

We can throw a delete link right inside our update template:

{% code title="resources/templates/update.html" %}

```markup
<form action="/post/{{ post.id }}/update" action="POST">
    {{ csrf_field|safe }}

    <label for="">Title</label>
    <input type="text" name="title"><br>

    <label>Body</label>
    <textarea name="body"></textarea><br>

    <input type="submit" value="Update">
    
    <a href="/post/{{ post.id }}/delete"> Delete </a>
</form>
```

{% endcode %}

Great! You now have a blog that you can use to create, view, update and delete posts! Go on to create amazing things!