First, read the documentation
at http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators, as
you do not appear to be following it. If for some reason you do not want to
use the built-in form functionality, just create an HTML form, and in the
action that receives the submission, the submitted form values will be
available in request.vars -- from there, you can do whatever you want with
the data.
Anthony
On Saturday, July 7, 2018 at 6:02:55 PM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I'll need your help. Am still stuck at this. I note that only when I
> refresh the page, will I get the latest 'request.vars.value' gets posted to
> the controller.
>
> 1. Is there a way of auto-refreshing the controller?
> 2. Is there a better method that this......Following your suggested
> option of {{form.custom.end}} i ended up with a blank page instead, hence
> going to the basics.
> 3. My aim is that when a user posts input, I retrieve it from what
> ever means....request.vars etc, then send to the functions to process..
>
> Kind regards
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:33 PM Maurice Waka <mauricew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I managed to go to the basics and got some progress:
>> def searches():
>> form = FORM(INPUT(_name='message'), INPUT(_type='submit'))
>> code = request.vars.message
>> return dict(code=code)
>>
>> view:
>> <form enctype = "multipart/form-data" action = "{{= URL()}}" method =
>> "post" class="hidden">
>> <select data-conv-question="Hello!
>> I'm a bot created from a HTML form. Can I show you some features? (this
>> question comes from a select)">
>> <option value="yes">Yes</option>
>> <option
>> value="sure">Sure!</option>
>> </select>
>> <input type="text" name="message"
>> data-conv-question="Alright! First, type one word e.g. 'exercise', or ask a
>> question.|Okay! you can type one word e.g. 'Soy', or ask a question.">
>> <input type="text"
>> data-conv-question="{{=code}}" data-no-answer="true">
>>
>> </form>
>>
>> However, as a test, when retrieving data to controller, the request.vars
>> does not give me the immediate user posted data, instead the previous data
>> posted. For example, if the user posts 'abcd', with the previous post
>> having been '1234', I'll get '1234' returned and not 'abcd'.
>> Is there a way of cleaning up request.vars and getting the CURRENT posted
>> data?
>> Thanks for the help, God bless!
>>
>> On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 12:49:23 PM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've changed from method='GET' to method ='POST', name=message ' (the
>>>> table name) etc. But I seem to have an issue with the highlighted part.
>>>> It's still not posting. Could you please give an example of how this can
>>>> work?
>>>> <form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST"
>>>> class="hidden">
>>>> <select data-conv-question="Hello!
>>>> I'm a bot created from a HTML form. Can I show you some features? (this
>>>> question comes from a select)">
>>>> <option value="yes">Yes</option>
>>>> <option
>>>> value="sure">Sure!</option>
>>>> </select>
>>>> <input type="text" name="message"
>>>> data-conv-question="Alright! First, type one word e.g. 'exercise', or ask
>>>> a
>>>> question.|Okay! you can type one word e.g. 'Soy', or ask a question.">
>>>>
>>>
>>> What exactly is the problem with that line? What are you expecting and
>>> what do you observe?
>>>
>>> Note, if you're using SQLFORM, you'll need to include
>>> {{=form.custom.end}} to make sure the hidden formname and formkey fields
>>> are included. Please read the documentation.
>>>
>>> Anthony
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