web2py forms are typically self-submitting, meaning that the form is
submitted to the same action (i.e., route) that generated it. This means
you don't have to define and process the same form in two different
functions. The question is whether you want the UI of the page to change
when displaying the results vs. the form, or whether you actually want the
URL of the results page to be different. If the former, all you need is
some logic in the view to display either the form or the results, depending
on whether there was a form submission. If the latter, you either need to
(a) submit the form to a different action from the one that generated it,
or (b) after processing the form, redirect to another action to generate
the results (in which case, you will need to make the search query
available to that second action, via query string or the session).
Because this is a search form, it probably makes more sense to submit via
the GET method rather than the default POST, in which case, the query
parameters will end up in the URL query string. You don't really need to
process the form submission in that case, so you can simply submit the form
to a different action. Something like:
def search_form():
form = FORM(..., _method='GET', _action=URL('default', 'search_results'
))
...
def search_results():
[extract query parameters from request.vars]
...
Anthony
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