On 9/29/06, adamjspooner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Adrian,
>
> I guess what I don't understand is how to use GET and POST...and what
> exactly they are GETting and POSTing...and what to name things and how
> to get those named things in the view to get to a template.
>
> I want to learn the basics and apply them.
>
GET refers to variables included in the URL. Take this example url:
http://example.com/some_url?a=foo&b=bar&c=blah
That url has three variables: a, b, and c which contain the values:
"foo", "bar" and "blah" respectively. To access those variables in
your view:
values = request.GET
# values == {'a' : ['foo'], 'b' : ['bar'], 'c' : ['blah']}
# if you want a single variable rather than a dictionary of all try
a = request.GET["a"]
# a == ["foo"]
# But may want to set a default if the var is missing
b = request.GET.get(b, "defaultstring")
# b exists so b == "bar"
d = request.GET.get(d, "foobar")
# d does not exist so d == "foobar"
Post works in much the same way, except that it uses values POSTed
from an html form rather than a url. For an example see the
documentation [1]. In fact, I'd suggest reading that entire page
again.
[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/request_response/#examples
>
> I understand the "Hello World!" example, but not the PHP connection
> one...it's the response part that I'm having trouble with.
>
Do you mean that you do not understand how to pass the data to the
template for display, or something else?
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