Is test.html inside /views/default/? In that case, you need to do
response.render('default/test.html',...) -- otherwise, if response.render
can't find the view, I think it will just revert to the generic view.
Anthony
On Friday, June 24, 2011 7:35:25 AM UTC-4, apple wrote:
> Thanks. I am having a problem with response.render. Followed example
> in the book but the controller below shows test.html but
> response.render returns the generic view. Am I missing something?
>
> def test():
> customer = db.customer[1]
> html = response.render('test.html', dict(customer=customer))
> f=open("c:/test.html", "w")
> f.write(html)
> f.close()
> return locals()
>
> On Jun 23, 12:47 am, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you want the html returned by a view, you can call
> response.render(view,
> > vars) directly (vars is a dictionary of variables to make available to
> the
> > view file). Seehttp://
> web2py.com/book/default/chapter/05#Using-the-Template-System-t...for
> > an example.
> >
> > Note, there's also a 'generic.pdf' view in the 'welcome' app, and the
> pyfpdf
> > package in /gluon/contrib. Here's an example application using pyfpdf:
> http://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/downloads/detail?name=web2py.app.fpdf....
> > There's alsohttps://github.com/lucasdavila/web2py-appreport.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:08:36 PM UTC-4, apple wrote:
> > > I want to produce some invoices. I have a template created in Word and
> > > saved as HTML. The template includes some tables and some placeholders
> > > for data. The placeholders are in the web2py template format so I can
> > > use python code to insert stuff like product lines programatically.
> > > Magic!
> >
> > > So far so good but suppose I want to generate a PDF and email it to
> > > customers. I have found a package (Pisa) that converts HTML to PDF. Is
> > > there a way I can get at the web2py response before it is returned
> > > from the controller to the browser?
