Hi, Thank you for the insight. You're right! I wasn't using Auth. I'll go to work on it again tomorrow.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > I see you are not using Auth, this means a lot of extra work for you. > > Assuming user.id was stored in session.user_id upon login you can do > > db.guestbook.author.default=session.user_id > db.guestbook.author.writable=False # readonly > db.guestbook.author.readable=False # invisible > > Anyway, I suggest you use auth. > > Massimo > > On Jun 2, 5:59 pm, Bill <isp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Guest Book users as they create a Guest Book entry will have an id > > assigned to that entry. This id goes into my users table so that I can > > retrieve it. I thought the lambda function set up would enable me to > > do this. Bottom line: I don't know how to do accomplish this end. > > > > Also, I don't know how to reference the user of that id. Thus, I was > > trying to use cookie sessions provided with web2py to store the user's > > id. > > > > If I replace the current "session.flash" value of "Guest Book > > Completed.Now YOU are on the map!" with "forms.vars.id", the variable > > "id" is unavailable. Would like to get the id of the most recent > > entry in the guestbook table and place it in my users table in a field > > called gbentry. > > > > My idea for using lambda came from this post: > > > > form=crud.create(db.table,onaccept=lambda form: do_something_with > > (for.vars.id)) > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/373ba9cee9... > > > > Here are the models and the controller. I thank you for your help. > > > > //models > > db.define_table('user', > > SQLField('alias'), > > SQLField('email'), > > SQLField('password','password'), > > SQLField('post_time','double',default=now), > > SQLField('gbentry')) > > > > db.define_table('guestbook', > > SQLField('post_time','double',default=now), > > SQLField('comments','integer',default=0), > > SQLField('filecabinet'), > > SQLField('author',db.person), > > SQLField('author_alias'), > > SQLField('url',length=128), > > SQLField('title',length=128), > > SQLField('flagged','boolean',default=False), > > SQLField('lat','double',default=1.0), > > SQLField('lon','double',default=1.0), > > SQLField('location','text'), > > SQLField('client_ip')) > > > > //controllers > > def post(): > > if not session.authorized: > > redirect(URL(r=request,f='login')) > > form=SQLFORM(db.guestbook,fields=['url','title','location']) > > form.vars.client_ip=request.env.remote_addr > > (latitude, longitude) = geocode(form.vars.location) > > form.vars.lat=latitude > > form.vars.lon=longitude > > if form.accepts(request.vars,session): > > session.flash=' Guest Book Completed.Now YOU are on the map! ' > > redirect(URL(r=request,f='index',args= > > [form.vars.filecabinet])) > > return dict(form=form) > > > > On Jun 2, 3:27 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > Not sure I understand the question. After > > > > > if form.accepts(...) > > > # here you can use form.vars.id > > > > > On Jun 2, 3:31 pm, Bill <isp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > How do I use lambda to retrieve the most recent id in conjunction > with > > > > the guestbook code below? > > > > > > Would like to update my users table with a reference id to their > > > > guestbook entry. > > > > > > In order store the guestbook entry id, I need to have a reference > > > > id. I am not sure how to obtain this. > > > > > > One idea would be to grab it at login and save as a session variable. > > > > Please give me some insight. The reference below has given me ideas, > > > > but I seem to be unable to use it. > > > > > > form=SQLFORM(db.guestbook,fields=['url','title','location']) > > > > form.vars.client_ip=request.env.remote_addr > > > > (latitude, longitude) = geocode(form.vars.location) > > > > form.vars.lat=latitude > > > > form.vars.lon=longitude > > > > if form.accepts(request.vars,session): > > > > session.flash=' Guest Book Completed.Now YOU are on the map! > ' > > > > redirect(URL(r=request,f='index',args= > > > > [form.vars.filecabinet])) > > > > return dict(form=form) > > > > > > Reference: > > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/5e1f13df58... > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
