Apologies, apologies, Niphlod. Went to get the controller and saw might mistake. Classic PEBKAC situation. Thanks for your help.
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 9:45:05 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: > > Can you please post the complete controller ? I still don't understand > when you say "the view is ok, but request.post_vars is empty". If you built > a view in web2py, and it's tied to that controller, it's impossible that > the view can "see" something that the controller "isn't seeing". > > On Saturday, September 22, 2012 3:25:09 PM UTC+2, thinkwell wrote: >> >> Yes, the form was generated outsite web2py and posted to the web2py >> controller "submit_site". My frustration is that in the controller, >> response.post_vars.submit_ip (and all form fields) have a value of None, >> but in the VIEW, they show correctly. WHY!? >> >> It can't be blamed out the external form because the request.post_vars >> values show up correctly in the VIEW. How can I access them in the >> controller? >> >> On Saturday, September 22, 2012 7:22:10 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> I didn't get the problem. Wasn't the form generated "outside" web2py and >>> you wanted web2py only to catch the submitted part ? >>> >>> request.post_vars include every value (hidden or not) that the >>> controller receives. if in response.post_vars there's no "submit_ip", than >>> it's probably your "outside" form that has something not working. >>> >>> On Saturday, September 22, 2012 12:49:11 AM UTC+2, thinkwell wrote: >>>> >>>> One more question - here's how I redid the controller because I need >>>> these values for hidden fields in the web2py form. >>>> >>>> def submit_site(): >>>> site = request.post_vars.submit_url >>>> ip = request.post_vars.submit_ip >>>> >>>> However, that only results in values of None. Why can't I use >>>> request.post_vars.submit_ip in the controller? I built the form >>>> successfully in a view, but I was hoping to build the form in the >>>> controller so I can use validation on some fields. How can access the form >>>> data inside the controller? >>>> >>> --
