And about validation
on suggested link
it is writhed under point 9 (section 4.10.22.3)
*If action is the empty string, let action be the document's address of the
form document.*
- - Miroslav Gojic - -
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 19:41, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see the problem -- setting the '_action' attribute after the form is
> created doesn't affect form.custom.begin, which is what you are using.
> Instead, try this in the view:
> {{=form.custom.begin.replace('action=""', 'action="%s"' % URL()}}
> URL() should generate the URL of the current action (though it won't
include
> args and vars, so you'll have to add those explicitly if your URL happens
to
> use them).
> However, I'm not sure it's necessary to have a non-empty action for valid
> HTML5 -- see #9
> here:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#form-submission-algorithm
.
> An empty action appears to be valid.
> Anthony
> On Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:50:29 PM UTC-4, miroslavgojic wrote:
>>
>> I try next example and all mentioned options:
>>
>> def people():
>> form = crud.create(db.person,next=URL('people'),message=T("record
>> created"))
>> form['_action'] = URL('index')
>> return dict(form = form)
>>
>> but my action field in form is empty.
>
> What do you mean the action field is empty? When I try the exact code
above,
> I get the following in the resulting source html:
> <form action="/testapp/default/index" enctype="multipart/form-data"
> method="post">
>
> Are you expecting something else?
>>
>> - - Miroslav Gojic - -
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 16:09, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:23:01 AM UTC-4, miroslavgojic wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I tray to put mentioned examples into controller after my form
>> >> definition
>> >>
>> >> form['_action'] = URL(index')
>> >> form.update(_action=URL('index'))
>> >> form.attributes.update(_action=URL('index'))
>> >>
>> >> but it is not happened anything,
>> >
>> > What exactly happened? I assume this does change the form action as
>> > expected, but then nothing happens when you submit the form? When you
>> > change
>> > the form action, the form will get submitted to that action. If you
>> > submit
>> > the form to 'index', then your 'index' function will have to process
the
>> > submitted form -- if there's no code in your 'index' function to do so,
>> > then
>> > nothing will happen. In web2py, forms are typically self-submitting
>> > (i.e.,
>> > submitted to the action that generated them). Is there a reason you
want
>> > to
>> > submit the form to a different action?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> and if I change my value I just get error
>> >>
>> >> form.update(_action=my_value) - this make error
>> >
>> > What is my_value? Is it a URL?
>> >
>> >>
>> >> In view after beginning of form.custom.start I tray next similar code
>> >> {{=form['_action'] = URL(index')}}
>> >
>> > I assume you mean form.custom.begin? Anyway, it will not work to change
>> > the
>> > form action after that because form.custom.begin actually inserts the
>> > <form>
>> > tag with the action specified -- so changing the action after will not
>> > affect the way the form is serialized.
>> > Anthony
>> >
>
