On 4/1/07, queezy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have this: <form action="http://somewebaddress/"; method="POST">
> and then this:
>
> <select name="office">
> <option value=" " selected>Click here to
> choose</option>
> <option value="100">100 Dummy Entry 1</option>
> <option value="106">106 Dummy Entry 2</option>
> <option value="107">107 Dummy Entry 3</option>
> </select>
>
> So it is a drop-down box with office numbers. The idea is that it goes to
> urls.py:
>
> from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to
> urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple',
> (r'^$', front),
> (r'^(?P<id>\d+)/$', 'redirect_to', {'url': '/%(id)s.pdf'}),
> )
>
> However this cannot work as it goes to the url and tries to pass the
> variable "office" with a given value. However, when it goes it ends up at
> the url which has nothing after it (because it isn't a GET but a POST) and
> it uses the url pattern "front" to just display the form again.
>
> So I am not seeing how to pass variables and values via POST within the
> Django framework. Can someone suggest alternative code above so that this
> would work?
This would probably best be handled by wrapping the redirect_to generic view.
#in views.py
from django.views.generic.simple import redirect_to
def user_lists(request, id):
url = '/%ss.pdf'' % id
return redirect_to(request, url=url)
James Bennet has a nice discussion on how to effectively use this
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/11/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views
~ Anders
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -Warren
>
>
> >
>
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