[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread villas
See the Forms and Validators section of the book. You have total flexibility if you want to go to the trouble of building your own form. Check out the Custom Forms section of that chapter. On Feb 10, 12:45 pm, Panupat Chongstitwattana panup...@gmail.com wrote: What I meant was breaking the

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Panupat
Villas - I have read the book. The form.custom only works with SQLFORM and crud. I cannot use that same method with FORM. Looks like there are some other properties of the form I can output in the view... so far I found {{=form.formname}} - which just give me the word default {{=form[0]}} 1 2 3

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruno Rocha
I almost always use forms in this following way: *#Create a DIV to WRAP it all* div = DIV(FORM()) print div divform action= enctype=multipart/form-data method=post/form/div *#Take the elements of the wrapper using DOM* print

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Panupat
Thanks Bruno. That looks very promising I'm trying it out now :) I got mine working too but it's very amature dir to find what's there and add bits and pieces of them into the view. /sigh. On Feb 10, 8:22 pm, Bruno Rocha rochacbr...@gmail.com wrote: I almost always use forms in this

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruno Rocha
Anyone know what properties I can call to get the hidden fields? Using SQLFORM you have form.hidden_fields() but using FORM you need to use Server side DOM and Parsing # *# Create a form with hidden elements* form =

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Dane
What about widgets? IS_IN_DB() for example. Is there a way to get those working with a regular FORM without using SQLFORM? On Feb 10, 8:22 am, Bruno Rocha rochacbr...@gmail.com wrote: I almost always use forms in this following way: *#Create a

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Panupat Chongstitwattana
Thanks Bruno the DIV(FORM()) trick is really nice. Too bad there's no dd, dt, dl which is what I usually use for form layouts. I guess I can always manually append them in. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Bruno Rocha rochacbr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know what properties I can call to get

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruno Rocha
You can use TAG.dd() , TAG.dl() here is a working MVC example for a customized contact form, which sends an email http://pastebin.com/jTbGQNZk -- Bruno Rocha http://about.me/rochacbruno/bio

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Panupat
How do I add css class,id or java onClick etc to the tags? On Feb 10, 8:44 pm, Bruno Rocha rochacbr...@gmail.com wrote: You can use TAG.dd() , TAG.dl() here is a working MVC example for a customized contact form, which sends an email http://pastebin.com/jTbGQNZk -- Bruno

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread villas
On Feb 10, 1:16 pm, Panupat panup...@gmail.com wrote: Villas - I have read the book. The form.custom only works with SQLFORM and crud. I cannot use that same method with FORM. Hi Panupat, I reread your original post again and I notice that your initial comment was: In the book only mentioned

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread Panupat Chongstitwattana
Hi Villas I'm sorry, I see what you meant now. I wasn't aware of the factory feature before :) On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:52 PM, villas villa...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 10, 1:16 pm, Panupat panup...@gmail.com wrote: Villas - I have read the book. The form.custom only works with SQLFORM and

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread villas
Hi Panupat, No problem, web2py has so many useful features they are sometimes overlooked - especially by me! Anyhow I hope it will at least reduce some of the complexity for you :) -D On Feb 10, 5:11 pm, Panupat Chongstitwattana panup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Villas I'm sorry, I see what you

[web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread pbreit
Why do you use all the underscores? Is it because those variables are reserved words? Does it make the variables private or something?

Re: [web2py] Re: custom form without using database?

2011-02-10 Thread rochacbruno
I use __ because I like to return locals() instead of a dict() Em 10/02/2011, às 18:53, pbreit pbreitenb...@gmail.com escreveu: Why do you use all the underscores? Is it because those variables are reserved words? Does it make the variables private or something?