Does your db.table.last_name have a default value?
On Nov 10, 8:52 pm, "Wes James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been doing this. But I am now writing my own form as the
> generic one does not work well for some of my fields. I need to add
> "helper" text after some of the fields to give extra info to the
> students about the field. I am having problems with the form creation
> but Massimo (and whoever else) hopefully can take a look at it and
> find out why the fields aren't being populated with values from the
> DB. This is what I'm trying to get to work:
>
> <input name="last_name" value="{{=form.latest.last_name}}" />
>
> All I get is None for the field value on the form.
>
> -wj
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Kyle Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The following is likely what you were looking for to set the maxlength
> > attribute in a single call of the ready() function.
>
> > <script>
> > $(document).ready(function() {
> > $('#student_last_name').attr('maxlength','4');
> > $('#student_first_name').attr('maxlength','4');
> > $('#student_last_name__label').attr('innerHTML','blah name');
> > });
> > </script>
>
> > As has been said previously, be sure you are using this for
> > presentation reasons and not for validation reasons as
> > javascript/client side validation cannot be trusted.
>
> > Kyle
>
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:12 PM, pigmej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Wes,
>
> >> If You use methods based on js or html it's easy to break them. Do not
> >> use it, it does make any sense. Anyone can break them in few seconds.
>
> >> You really should use max/min length on server side, not user side.
>
> >> On Nov 9, 6:30 am, "Wes James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:37 AM, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> > You can use juery to change them
>
> >>> > <script>
> >>> > $(document).ready(function() {$
> >>> > ('#student_last_name').attr('maxlength','30'); });
> >>> > </script>
>
> >>> Ok this is working! Thx!!
>
> >>> this is my app/views/layout.html with some tests that work for
> >>> maxlength and changing label text:
>
> >>> {{extend '../../plugin_t2/views/layout.html'}}
> >>> <script>
> >>> $(document).ready(function() {$
> >>> ('#student_last_name').attr('maxlength','4'); });
>
> >>> $(document).ready(function() {$
> >>> ('#student_first_name').attr('maxlength','4'); });
>
> >>> $(document).ready(function() {$
> >>> ('#student_last_name__label').attr('innerHTML','blah name'); });
> >>> </script>
>
> >>> {{include}}
> >>> -----------------------
>
> >>> I also tried to combine the lastname and firstname into one function,
> >>> but it would only work when i put them in their own function. Can
> >>> they be combined?
>
> >>> -wj
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