Re: [web2py] Re: Question about a section of the book.

2012-08-03 Thread Anthony
> > I would have to assume that the hiddens are only generated > because of the call to FORM.accepted(). Correct. FORM.process() ultimately calls FORM.accepts(), which adds a "formname" attribute. When the form is serialized in the view, the FORM.xml() method calls FORM.hidden_fields(), which

Re: [web2py] Re: Question about a section of the book.

2012-08-03 Thread Toby Shepard
On 08/02/2012 12:29 PM, Niphlod wrote: formname='something' serializes within the form a hidden input, so web2py can distinguish what form is being submitted. If the submitted values were to be serialized as urlencoded, just to explain, for the first form would be name=value&formname=form_one a

Re: [web2py] Re: Question about a section of the book.

2012-08-02 Thread Niphlod
formname='something' serializes within the form a hidden input, so web2py can distinguish what form is being submitted. If the submitted values were to be serialized as urlencoded, just to explain, for the first form would be name=value&formname=form_one and for the second name=value&formnam

Re: [web2py] Re: Question about a section of the book.

2012-08-02 Thread Toby Shepard
On 08/02/2012 11:35 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: if you have two forms in one page, web2py needs to be able to discriminate which one is being submitted. It does that by using a input type=hidden name=formname. But the forms below have the same name. I don't think I understand completely. Ma

[web2py] Re: Question about a section of the book.

2012-08-02 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
if you have two forms in one page, web2py needs to be able to discriminate which one is being submitted. It does that by using a input type=hidden name=formname. Massimo On Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:13:10 UTC-5, Toby Shepard wrote: > > In the forms section: > > It is possible to have multiple