Thank you very much Tim!! I didn't even consider this posibility. It seems that it's what I was looking for. I will try it.
Kind regards! On Friday, October 18, 2013 3:56:43 AM UTC+2, Tim Richardson wrote: > > You are doing this the really hard way, I think. > If you read the book a bit more you will discover web2py's built-in forms. > Probably you should use SQLFORM. > This means you do all the coding in the controller. Behind the scenes, > SQLFORM will create a variable which contains the HTML to display the form, > and it also includes the logic to update the database table. > > While you are developing, you can rely on the "developer" or generic > views, which means you don't even need to worry about making a view until > you are ready. > > In other words, you can do all of this in one line (in the controller) > > form = SQLFORM(db.matches) > > (assuming you have setup up your table definition well). > > > Or you should read about SQLFORM.grid, which may be more what you want. It > starts by displaying all the records in a table, and then lets the user > choose which rows to edit. It then automatically generates an SQLFORM for > that row. Still only one line :) > > > > > > > On Friday, 18 October 2013 10:22:40 UTC+11, Wonton wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been working with web2py controllers to connect with my database and >> I haven't use views so far, so I don't know if what I'm trying to do is >> very wrong. In that case, please, tell me ;-). >> >> Suppose I have this: >> >> controllers/mycontroller.py: >> >> def show_matches(): >> matches = db(db.matches.id > 0).select() >> return dict(matches=matches) >> >> views/show_matches.html: >> >> {{extend 'layout.html'}} >> <h1>MATCHES</h1> >> <table> >> <th> >> <th>MATCH</th> >> <th>TEAM1</th> >> <th>TEAM2</th> >> </th> >> {{for match in matches:}} >> <tr> >> <td>{{=match['team1']}} vs. {{=match['team2']}}</td> >> <td> >> <forms> >> <select style="width:80px;"> >> <option>0</option> >> <option>1</option> >> <option>2</option> >> <option>+2</option> >> </select> >> </form> >> </td> >> <td> >> <forms> >> <select style="width:80px;"> >> <option>0</option> >> <option>1</option> >> <option>2</option> >> <option>+2</option> >> </select> >> </form> >> </td> >> </tr> >> {{pass}} >> </table> >> >> >> I would like to include a button (with 'a' and 'onclick' I guess) at the >> bottom of the page so when the user clicks in it, all data selected in the >> forms are sent to mycontroller.py (to store_results_in_ddbb function). >> >> How could I read all this data and send it to a controller? Should I have >> only one <form> and all <select> components pointing to it through a 'form' >> tag? Should I have all select components with an 'id' tag and read the data >> through this tag? >> >> I'm a newbie with HTML (web frontend in general) so I hope I am not >> saying something very stupid ;-). >> >> Any idea will be very appreciated. >> >> Thank you very much and kind regards! >> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.