Hi Dave, All, I found a solution - It was easy - wrote a new function that takes a parameter, called it in the view and it redirects to the required page.
query = (db.fotoz.album_name == "%s" % request.args(0)) and have this <p> <a href="{{=URL(r=request, c='default', f='view_album', args=[allalbums[i].album_name])}}" class="btn">View Album</a></p> in view. That sends the argument to this function and displays the album. The only issue is with spaces in album names that dont work. Cheers, Rahul A few threads that helped... - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/WJtJ-QDemTM http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9328126/web2py-connecting-to-the-correct-controller https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/ICo5-yFgxmc On Friday, June 20, 2014 10:24:42 AM UTC+5:30, Rahul wrote: > > Thanks! for replying Dave. While I am open to suggestions, I plan to > redirect the request such that as soon as the user clicks on any album > thumbnail - he gets redirected to a page (perhaps viewalbum.html) where all > images belonging to a particular album are listed. > > Thanks, Rahul. > > On Friday, June 20, 2014 12:31:14 AM UTC+5:30, Dave S wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:50:09 AM UTC-7, Rahul wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> I am writing an image gallery in my app. I am stuck up here - >>> I want to display images that belong to a particular album when I select >>> that album in the view. Although I am able to display albums in the view, >>> but cannot proceed further to display images belonging to that particular >>> albums after clicking the album (from the view). >>> >>> here are the table in *db.py* - >>> db.define_table('photoalbum', >>> Field('reguser_id'), >>> Field('album_name'), >>> Field('short_description'), >>> ) >>> >>> db.define_table(photos', >>> Field('reguser_id'), >>> Field('caption'), >>> Field('category', requires=IS_IN_SET(pix_cat)), >>> Field('description', 'text'), >>> Field('upload_photo', 'upload' , uploadfolder=request.folder + ' >>> static/uploads', default=0, autodelete=True,), >>> Field('album_name', requires=IS_IN_SET(albums)), >>> ) >>> >>> I would think you want the last line to be a reference, like >>> Field('album_name', >>> 'reference photoalbum'); >>> >>> Controller - *default.py * >>> >>> def myalbums(): >>> >>> ## selects all albums >>> allalbums = db(db.photoalbum.reguser_id == session.logged_in_user_id >>> ). select(db.photoalbum.album_name) >>> >>> # selects descriptions for all albums >>> alldescriptions = db(db.photoalbum.reguser_id == session. >>> logged_in_user_id). select(db.photoalbum.short_description) >>> >>> ## selects photos >>> allimages = db(db.photos.reguser_id == session.logged_in_user_id). >>> select(db.photos.upload_photo, db.photos.caption, db.photos.description, >>> cache=(cache.ram,20)) >>> >>> return dict(allalbums=allalbums, alldescriptions=alldescriptions, >>> allimages=allimages) >>> >>> >>> Code in the view *myalbum.html* >>> <!-- New Try --> >>> >>> {{for i in range(len(allalbums)):}} >>> >>> <ul class="thumbnails"> >>> <!-- Iterate over all images - --> >>> <li class="span2"> >>> <div class="thumbnail"> >>> <!-- <img data-src="holder.js/300x200" alt="300x200" style=""> >>> --> >>> >>> {{=(A(IMG(_src=URL(r=request,c='static\images',f='vimage.jpg')), >>> _href=URL (r=request,c='default', f='myalbums', args=[allalbums[i]. >>> album_name]) ))}} >>> >>> >>> <div class="caption"> >>> <h5>{{=allalbums[i].album_name}}</h5> >>> <p>{{=alldescriptions[i].short_description}}</p> >>> >>> >>> </div> >>> >>> </div> >>> </li> >>> >>> {{pass}} >>> {{pass}} >>> >>> >>> Here I can get the album names in the view but when I click on it, it >>> should query all the photos belonging to that particular (as specified in >>> args) albumname and show all images in another page or a carousel that I >>> would create. >>> >>> >> Do you want a redirect, or to have multiple pages open at a time? >> >> In either case, don't you need a link (to another controller) or an >> action (from a form) that would query for somethng like >> db(photos.album_name == var.album_name).select() ? >> >> I'm not a dab hand at this; I'm still bouncing back and forth in the >> manual as I type this, >> < >> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#One-to-many-relation >> > >> but there's a bunch of examples in the recent posts to this list. >> >> Grabbing one thread rather quickly, this one might have some pertinence: >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/nDBOL7w6qB4/3181A5kRWSAJ> >> >> >> >>> Again - The image vimage.jpg specified in the view is a static image, >>> can the thumbnail image representing a particular album be created from an >>> image from within the album ? Please suggest .. >>> >>> I've read about the thumbnail processing in the book, and a couple of >> examples in the groups since last summer, but haven't actually tried it. >> So I'll defer to others, other than to say that "seems possible". >> >> /dps >> >> -- 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/d/optout.