with the scaffolding app, it's as easy as replacing the standard index function with yours and use
return dict(quote=quotes[day]) at the bottom of it instead of your return quotes[day] On Saturday, March 2, 2013 1:26:50 AM UTC+1, Erik Clinger wrote: > > I'm a self taught high school students trying to make a quote of the day > website. > Essentially what I'm trying to do is assign the day of the month equal to > a quote that I have selected. The code runs just fine. I'll post it on the > bottom. > Anyway, the disconnect that I'm getting is inputting the application that > I have written in Python to the a html template. I know that you need to > have a controller, view and model files all to display the application > correctly. I have absolutely no idea how to do this. > > Thank you so much for your time. > > Code: > > from datetime import date > > > def index(): > quotes = {1: "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help. -President > Ronald W. Reagan", > 2: "There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very > few that we can solve by ourselves. -President Lyndon B. Johnson", > 3: "A people that values its privileges above its principles > soon loses both. -President Dwight D. Eisenhower", > 4: "Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not > finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. -President Richard > M. Nixon", > 5: "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or > some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change > that we seek. -President Barack H. Obama", > 6: "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you > learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, > not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. > -President William J. Clinton", > 7: "One man with courage makes a majority. -President Andrew > Jackson", > 8: "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of > creative effort. -President Franklin D. Roosevelt", > 9: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. > -President John F. Kennedy", > 10: "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang > on. -President Thomas Jefferson", > 11: "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care > who gets the credit. -President Harry S. Truman", > 12: "Believe you can and you're halfway there. -President Theodore > Roosevelt", > 13: "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. -President > George Washington", > 14: "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is > someone who brings people together. -President George W. Bush", > 15: "It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than > to run by committing subterfuge. -President S. Grover Cleaveland", > 16: "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it > even better than you think you can. -President E. Jimmy Carter", > 17: "The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an > obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. > -President T. Woodrow Wilson", > 18: "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which > difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. -President John Quincy Adams", > 19: "The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, > but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. -President James > Buchanan", > 20: "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. > Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. > Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; > the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone > are omnipotent. -President J. Calvin Coolidge", > 21: "History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not > in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. > -President Gerald R. Ford", > 22: "Right reason is stronger than force. -President James A. > Garfield", > 23: "The bud of victory is always in the truth. -President Benjamin > Harrison", > 24: "For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues > which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of > success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me > triumph as a man or not at all. -President Rutherford B. Hayes", > 25: "Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in > the hearts of men. -President Herbert C. Hoover", > 26: "Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of > knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. -President John > Adams", > 27: "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The > shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -President Abraham > Lincoln", > 28: "In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. > -President William McKinley", > 29: "It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a > prostrate foe. -President Zachary Taylor", > 30: "Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a > coquette: the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. > -President John Tyler", > 31: "Let us have peace. -President Ulysses S. Grant" > } > day = date.today().day > return quotes[day] > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.