What does your controller look like?
-Jim
On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 8:35:41 PM UTC-6, superpirst wrote:
>
> I created a website that you could post items and I'm having a lot of
> problem trying to figure out how to make a dropdown menu that can filter
> those posts. What I'm trying to do is that when you make a post, you can
> only pick from the 4 categories. Then in the main page, you will have a
> drop down box where you can select one of those keywords and it will filter
> out all the posts so that only the posts with that select keyword will
> show.
>
> In my db.py I made
>
> post_categories= ['Food', 'Games, 'Hobbies', 'Toys']
>
> db.define_table('posts',
> Field('title', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> Field('price'),
> Field('category', requires=IS_IN_SET(post_categories)),
> auth.signature)
>
>
> In my view index.html
>
> I have
>
> <select id="post_categories">
> <option value='0'>(Select Category)</option>
> </select>
> I was wondering why on my page, the 4 keywords aren't showing up in the
> drop down box?
>
> Also, I heard you can use a form tag(not sure how to work this) to sent
> the data to another view ("filterCategory").
> I'm not sure how to even get this to work. I spent almost a week looking
> up solutions, but got no where...
>
> Any help will be great!!
> Thank you
>
>
>
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