Let me be a bit more clear.
Lets take, for example, the linkedin javascript api. Now, when you log
into your linkedin account through my website, the website can access
certain parts of your profile using javascript. Now, when the user
first logs in, I want to be able store some information about the user
in my database. So, if the user decides to create an article or
something on my website, his article can be attributed to that
account. Otherwise, I don't see any other way to attribute data to
that user. I don't really know how to pass what the javascript return
back into the view.
On Aug 25, 2:08 am, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 August 2011 06:10:38 UTC+1, raj wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set a default form value in the template, and not in the
> > forms.py file (because I'm trying to make the default value dynamic
> > depending on something that javascript will return).
> > So To test it, I have the following line in my template:
>
> > {{ form.first_name|default:"Enter Your first name" }}
>
> > The issue is that it doesn't work, And I can't figure out why. Am I
> > doing something illegal?
> > Help Please. Thank you.
>
> No, that doesn't work at all, and never will. The "default" filter is for
> providing a value in case a particular context variable is empty, not for
> setting a form field's default value.
>
> Your reasoning doesn't seem to make sense, in any case. Templates are
> rendered server-side, so Javascript can have no effect on what is rendered.
> Do this in the view.
> --
> DR.
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