I found what I was looking for. request.vars returns the data in dictionary 
format. All I had to do was assign a variable to the name of my key in 
request.vars (example: ip = request.vars['ip'] and it worked. Thank you!!

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 10:20:35 AM UTC-5, Austin Taylor wrote:
>
> First, thank you for any help. I really appreciate the support from these 
> forums.
>
> I've been trying to create an input field for a user to type in an IP 
> address and I can't seem to figure it out how to assign it to a variable. 
>
> Tried following: 
> http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Forms-and-validators and 
> still seem to be missing something.
>
> I then want to assign their input to a variable, run it through my IP 
> checks and return the result from our SQL database.
>
> In a nutshell, how can I assign their input to a variable (I'm thinking 
> request.vars??) and then run it through a series of checks under 
> myapp/controllers and return the result.
>

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