Have you read through this chapter: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07
In particular: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#SQLFORM.factory http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Custom-forms http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#SQLFORM-in-HTML There's also http://www.web2pyslices.com/search?criteria=tags&query=form. Anthony On Thursday, September 8, 2011 8:22:23 PM UTC-4, Luca wrote: > > I am new to web2py, as I mentioned in another post, and I am wondering > where to find in-depth documentation. > Let me give you an example. I wanted to do a form that does not correspond > to a db table, and that has several input fields. I also wanted to render > it in a table. > > In the English web2py book, all the examples are with forms which (a) > either have only one input field, or (b) are derived more or less directly > from db tables. I could not find clear documentation anywhere on how to > cook up my own funny form. In the end, I understood, or so I think, and I > wrote something like > > form = FORM(TABLE( > TR(TD('City'), TH(INPUT(_name='city', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()))), > TR(TD('County'), TH(INPUT(_name='county'))), > INPUT(_value='Add', _type='submit', _action=URL('add')))) > > I have no idea whether this is the best way -- I would have preferred to > leave the HTML tags in the view, rather than in the controller, but then I > could find no explanation on how to access the components of a form in a > view. > > Now, the problem is not so much in this form. The problem is, where is > documentation that is more in-depth than the overview given in the book? I > ran into this problem not only with forms, but with database fields (e.g., > default=now as cited in the book does not work for datetime fields), with > the role of controllers, with the way in which models are loaded... > > When _you_ need this information, where do you find it? What's the secret > source of knowledge I am missing? :-) > > Luca >
