Brian
The short answer is: you need to create a form where you input
* no. of dice
* no. of sides
and then process that POSTed data.
The longer answer is <gentleness_mode_on> that you seem to be confused
about a number of basic concepts on Django and web apps. I'd
recommend working through The Django Book; Chapter 7 on Forms (http://
www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter07/) has some examples you could
adapt for your specific problem. But, you *really* need to start from
Chapter 1 so you have grasped the core concepts. I speak from
personal experience - its an excellent read.<gentleness_mode_off>
Hope this helps!
Derek
On Dec 6, 3:48 pm, Brian Callies <br...@gibbous.org> wrote:
> Good Day,
>
> As a part of a project I want to create a single page that has a number
> of different utilities on it. One of those is a dice roller. Ultimately
> I'd like to be able to type in the number of dice and number of sides,
> click a button, and return the result on the page.
>
> I understand you cannot pass arguments from a template without creating
> custom tags (I think). So, ignore that aspect for now.
>
> For now, if someone could just point me in the right direction on how to
> call a method from a template and return a result.
>
> Do I want to create a view as such (assume I have a Class for making
> dice rolls):
>
> def Dice_Roll(request):
> roll = Roll(3, 8)
> total = roll.output()
> return render_to_response('utils/diceroll.html', {'total': total})
>
> And call it from the template?
> Or, am I going about this all wrong since this page doesn't have dynamic
> or database data? Would a static HTML page work better?
>
> Ah-ha! I see I should use Flatpages, most likely. But, I'm not sure that
> solves my problem since it would still use templates and would still
> have to call a method.
>
> Thanks, and hope this wasn't too rambling,
> Brian
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