Thanks for the replies, but I guess I didn't make myself clear
enough. Counter was just as an example, I don't want an actual page
counter.
I guess part of my question is: Yes, I can use AJAX-y XMLHttpRequest
to send info to the server in the background, but has someone done
this already in django somewhere and posted code that can be plugged
in?
The idea is to have a view like this:
def my_view(request,num=0):
counter = Counter.objects.get(id=someid)
counter.count += num
counter.save()
# setup view stuff
but without specifying num in the URL or having to use a <form> in my
template.
Thanks
On Apr 10, 6:34 pm, "Norman Harman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Taylor wrote:
> > Does something exist so that a link on a page performs an action
> > rather than just showing a view?
> > For example: I have a counter saved to the db, and every time a user
> > clicks the link, the counter increases by a certain number and saves.
>
> > without even visiting the page that the link
> > is on by visiting the URL directly.
>
> They can only visit the page if you provide an url it. Just don't make
> any url that displays page without your counter
>
> I don't think I understand what you want, since what I think you want is
> super trivial. But...
>
> def my_view(request):
> counter = Counter.objects.get(id=someid)
> counter.count += 1
> counter.save()
> # Or seehttp://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/request_response/if
> you want
> to use different value/counter based on what page led them to current view.
> # referer is unreliable
> refer = request.META.get( "HTTP_REFERER", None)
> counter = Counter.objects.get(refer=refer)
> counter.count += 1
> counter.save()
> # do whatever to show view
>
> Which is not a great way of doing it (db hit every page view, fails when
> you start caching results) but those don't matter unless your site is
> real busy.
>
> another option parsing apache/nginx/whatever logs for whenever
> particular url(s) where responded to.
>
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