[web2py:29670] Best approach to insert records containing upload fields with default files/images.

2009-08-30 Thread Ted G
I'm not sure of the best way to approach this, any suggestions? I am inserting records into a table that contains an upload field for an image (which is stored in the table as a blob). The user will be able to later change this image via a form, and I wish to expose the field for download, thus t

[web2py:29669] Re: Comma creates an invalid request?

2009-08-30 Thread SergeyPo
Yes, in my application comma creates "invalid request' error too. I had to write a special javascript routine to ensure that there is no commas in requests (they are produced by flot library when you drag an area in the chart). I recommend to use /geocoder/index/london/ontario and retrieve values

[web2py:29668] Re: KPAX+FIREBIRD not work

2009-08-30 Thread shuval
FIREBIRD 2.1.2 and web2py 1.66.2 . After renamed fieldname and tablename i registrated user and i input login and password but after error. Not insert ticket... On sqlite this application work. What is problem? Thank's for help Error traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/web2py_1

[web2py:29667] KPAX+FIREBIRD not work

2009-08-30 Thread shuval
Hello! I test KPAX+FIREBIRD. tablename and fieldname ('user','password','page','file') not create to database. May be rename tablename and fieldname... But this'is very much problem in scripts. May be edit sql.py where cleanup. Thanks for help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[web2py:29666] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
Looking in the help forums, this appears to be a similar problem for others. On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote: > I think first we need to raise the issue with searching to google; > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Alexandre > Andrade wrote: >> Well, if the problem is hos

[web2py:29665] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
I think first we need to raise the issue with searching to google; On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Alexandre Andrade wrote: > Well, if the problem is host, I can host it > > > > 2009/8/29 Pynthon Pynthon >> >> True, it is more professional. Only problem is the hosting... >> >> 2009/8/29 mr.free

[web2py:29664] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Alexandre Andrade
Julio, Well, I try it on new version of web2py, and it can't install. Can you provide a new package, using a new version of web2py? 2009/8/30 Alexandre Andrade > Well, if the problem is host, I can host it > > > > 2009/8/29 Pynthon Pynthon > > True, it is more professional. Only problem is t

[web2py:29663] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Alexandre Andrade
Well, if the problem is host, I can host it 2009/8/29 Pynthon Pynthon > True, it is more professional. Only problem is the hosting... > > 2009/8/29 mr.freeze > > >> Also, I think a web framework that eats it's own dog food is more >> convincing. >> >> On Aug 29, 1:34 pm, "mr.freeze" wrote: >

[web2py:29662] Comma creates an invalid request?

2009-08-30 Thread Derek
Hi, I'm doing some geocoding. I have a geocoder.py file with an index function. A url like: /geocoder/index/london uses the value 'london' (stored in request.args[0]) just fine. But if I add a comma, as in: /geocoder/index/london,_ontario I get an "Invalid request" error. It's not even a web

[web2py:29661] Re: Horizontal menu

2009-08-30 Thread Yannick
Oh thanks a lot for the tips.. yes now it works... Thanks :) On Aug 30, 1:57 pm, Mladen Milankovic wrote: > Hi. > > I tried it and it didn't work, and then looked at it with firebug and changed > it a little. The ul that contains the menu has the class menu, in this case. > As you wrote the css,

[web2py:29659] estore status

2009-08-30 Thread Richard
hello, there was a lot of enthusiasm a month back about developing the estore: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/371616dac1584bd5 I was wondering whether that effort got off the ground. The current description for estore says "Almost complete" - is there a list of missin

[web2py:29658] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread mr.freeze
The search on google groups seems broken to me. For example, go to http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/topics?start=4630&sa=N. This will bring up the oldest posts (Oct 2007). Now try searching for one of the subjects listed (i.e. cookbook tutorial). I get no results. Also, whenever I search,

[web2py:29657] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
also, is pyforms still tied to MySQL? It would be good to update for DAL usage (e.g. db independent), and would be interesting to see it running on GAE. On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Yarko Tymciurak wrote: > better or worse, the best place for information is where people use > it, and questio

[web2py:29660] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Richard
yeah I've also noticed some weird results when searching. I assumed Google would nail it! On Aug 31, 11:15 am, "mr.freeze" wrote: > The search on google groups seems broken to me.  For example, go > tohttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py/topics?start=4630&sa=N.  This > will bring up the oldes

[web2py:29656] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
better or worse, the best place for information is where people use it, and questions and answers accumulate (e.g. content trumps function to a large degree). Ultimately, people will go where they can find answers (either through replies or searching). In general, even the forums are google sear

[web2py:29652] Re: exec_environment limitations?

2009-08-30 Thread Richard
hi Massimo, didn't realize exec_environment was not recommended. Perhaps that could be mentioned in the manual (p 125). How would you recommend I import my model? I created models/ __init__.py and then tried: >>> from gluon.sql import SQLDB >>> from applications.test.models import db which thre

[web2py:29654] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread Richard
I really like pyforum and consider it the best available web2py app out there. However Google Groups has worked well - no downtime, low amount of spam, good search support, email updates, etc. (It is a much better system than Yahoo Groups.) Is pyforum ready for all that? And I like with Google Gr

[web2py:29655] Re: pyforum instead of google groups?

2009-08-30 Thread JorgeR
I dont like to have a clugged email box. So, for instance, I dont receive email updates from this group, and from no other, really. A forum is better organized given that it has sub forums and the threads are more easy to search-find. Google groups has been ok when the user base is still a newbo

[web2py:29653] Re: Web2py and Webfaction

2009-08-30 Thread Heronim
It worked, thank you for help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+u

[web2py:29651] Bug in alternate authentication

2009-08-30 Thread Ahmed Soliman
Hello Everybody, I've seen a *possible* bug if I got things right in the authentication code, let me tell you about how to reproduce it first. * * *steps to reproduce:* 1. I use LDAP authentication (LDAP only, no local authentication wanted) so I set my auth.settings.login_methods = ldap_au

[web2py:29650] Re: Questions for large deployment

2009-08-30 Thread what_ho
Hi Iceberg - With regards to bypassing source code parsing overhead, I think that overhead only occurs when the site is not compiled. Once you compile a site in the web2py admin pages the .pyc bytecode files are created for the models, and then on each webpage request it looks like these .pyc fil

[web2py:29649] Re: Questions for large deployment

2009-08-30 Thread what_ho
Hi Yarko - Just from feedback for you - From my tests I found with all optimisations enabled (migrate=False, python files compiled etc.) that running in database model definitions does not take a lot of time, just as you suggest. Running model definitions in once takes even less time, but I stil

[web2py:29648] Re: Questions for large deployment

2009-08-30 Thread what_ho
Hi all - just had time this weekend to look further into this. Thank you to suggestions from Iceberg, Yarko and Massimo. I have tried putting table definitions into a module, and also run some timing tests against a Postgres database As a note, for my previous tests coming out at 12ms page respo

[web2py:29647] Re: Horizontal menu

2009-08-30 Thread Mladen Milankovic
Hi. I tried it and it didn't work, and then looked at it with firebug and changed it a little. The ul that contains the menu has the class menu, in this case. As you wrote the css, it says ul which is somewhere in some element with class menu. So I changed the definitions like this: ul.menu{

[web2py:29646] Re: Horizontal menu

2009-08-30 Thread Yannick
Thanks for the note mmlado... I tried that before it works BUT what i meant is when i change the class to my customize CSS horizontal menu (NOT this one web2py-menu web2py-menu-horizontal" ) it always appear as Vertical menu... Here is my Horizontal CSS menu: .menu{ font-weight: bold; width: 100%

[web2py:29645] Re: Horizontal menu

2009-08-30 Thread Mladen Milankovic
Hi. Don't know how does your code for the menu look like, but I'll assume you're using the built-in function MENU. So if you have something like this: {{=MENU(response.menu, _class = 'web2py-menu web2py-menu-vertical')}} just change the vertical to horizontal, like: {{=MENU(response.menu, _c

[web2py:29644] Re: how to open a file from default.py

2009-08-30 Thread Mladen Milankovic
Hi. Hmm... I thought designers know javascript. At least for design things like this... :) Try something like this. Give a class to the element that needs the click action. You can reference elements in a jquery through any valid css selection. This way you can get all the elements and assig

[web2py:29643] Re: how to open a file from default.py

2009-08-30 Thread tititi
Thanks Mladen for menioning the the import os, I wasn't aware of this. As for (2), I was using the original approach to try to be as unobtrusive as possible to JS from HTML (we're trying assign developers to cookie-cut each area: models for DBAs, controllers for Pythonists, and HTML/CSS for desig

[web2py:29642] Re: Web2py and Webfaction

2009-08-30 Thread jlegler
Try running it like this: python2.5 web2py -p 80 By default, webfaction runs python 2.4 so if you don't specify 2.5 you may run into problems. I had really good luck following instructions written by dhmorgan and yarko in webfaction's forums. You can view it at http://forum.webfaction.com/view

[web2py:29641] Horizontal menu

2009-08-30 Thread Yannick
Hello mate, I have a quick question Does anyone please knows how to use the menu-helper to create an Horizontal menu ? I can't find it in the previous threads of this group I can do the vertical menu but not horizontal... Thanks in advance for your help... Cheers, Yannick P. --~--~-

[web2py:29640] Re: how to open a file from default.py

2009-08-30 Thread Mladen Milankovic
Hi. 1. If you want to open a file you have to give the file with path on the file system and not through url. I do like this: import os filename = os.path.join(request.folder, 'modules', 'appsettings.py') request.folder contains the path to the current application 2. I think it's bad idea to

[web2py:29639] Re: web2py complaints & rebuttals

2009-08-30 Thread Fran
On Aug 30, 5:15 am, Scott Hunter wrote: > Complaint #3: Having to do strange things (like double-imports and > reloads) to pick up run-time changes in my module.  (This may be where > the complaint about 3rd party modules comes from.) > Response #3: I believe the issue here is that there is a mod

[web2py:29638] how to open a file from default.py

2009-08-30 Thread tititi
I want to open and append a javascript file (placed in Static folder) from default.py file but not seem to get past the error: filename = URL(r=request,c="static",f="jquery_dynamic.js") try: logfile = open(filename , 'w') for each in restaurantsFeatures: logfile.

[web2py:29637] Re: web2py complaints & rebuttals

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Scott Hunter wrote: > > A colleague has lodged the following complaints about web2py, and I'd > like to run my responses by this group in order to correct/strengthen > those responses. > > Complaint #1: No real-time debugging (i.e. proper step-debugging in a > real

[web2py:29636] Re: ipython question

2009-08-30 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
If you have downloaded the windows versoin of web2py, then you will just have web2py.exe (no *.py) The web2py.py file is only part of the source file. To run the windows (or Mac) web2py you don't need anything (not even python) other than the download. To run the source version, you need a vers