If anyone can write a tutorial using bad programming practices, it's Microsoft!
I could port that portion of the code that converts address to LAT/LON values using this (server side): http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/12#Geocoding But like I said, I'm just trying to do a straight port of the NerdDinner app. Thanks! On Aug 9, 6:39 pm, "Martin.Mulone" <mulone.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can do this in that way, or you can do that in correct way. Good > programming dont hide or populate values in the client (javascript). > The correct way is to populate the lat and long in server side. I dont > know what values you need it. If you dont have any other way nobody > prohibit to do that. > > On 9 ago, 20:46, Rob <r...@rmdashr.com> wrote: > > > It's probably lame, but I'm attempting to port NerdDinner to web2py > > (http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Part11.htm), in this section > > they have some javascript code that says this: > > > //... do a bunch of stuff to get lat/lon from user entered address ... > > //If we've found exactly one place, that's our address. > > if (points.length === 1) { > > $("#Dinners_Latitude").val(points[0].Latitude); > > $("#Dinners_Longitude").val(points[0].Longitude); > > } > > > Which queries bing map service for lat/lon of a user entered address. > > The JS snippet places the result from the query in 2 hidden input > > boxes and their controller stores them in the DB. > > > If I set readable/writable to False, they won't display when the page > > is rendered... thus the JS will have no place to put the results. > > > Ideally, I'd have the controller do the work of figuring out the lat/ > > lon, but I'm just doing a port and got suck at this point here. > > > Am I making sense? > > > Thanks, > > Rob > > > On Aug 9, 3:07 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > You can make something like this work you should not. It is a security > > > vulnerability to have a editable hidden field because it does not > > > prevent the client from editing. In web2py you should never need > > > something like this. Just make the field invisible: > > > > db.Dinners.Latitude.readable=False > > > db.Dinners.Latitude.writable=False > > > > On Aug 9, 3:12 pm, Rob <r...@rmdashr.com> wrote: > > > > > after > > > > reading:https://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/bd7b06b759c9... > > > > > It looks like what I can do is this: > > > > db.Dinners.Latitude.widget=lambda > > > > field,value:SQLFORM.widgets.StringWidget.widget(field,value,_type="hidden") > > > > > Will this work? I'll test when I get home tonight. > > > > > On Aug 7, 10:21 pm, Rob <r...@rmdashr.com> wrote: > > > > > > I have a model that has a 'Address', 'Lat' and "Lon' field. When the > > > > > user enters an address, some javascript currently populates the 'Lat' > > > > > and 'Lon' fields and they get inserted into the DB via crud.create() > > > > > or crud.update(). > > > > > > How do I hide these fields from the user, but allow the JS to insert > > > > > the correct values? Idealy, I would like to turn these fields from > > > > > input fields to hidden fields. > > > > > > Possible? > > > > > > just for reference: > > > > > model: > > > > > db.define_table('Dinners', > > > > > Field('Address', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > > > > > Field('Latitude', 'double'), # <== I want this to be a hidden > > > > > field > > > > > Field('Longitude', 'double')) # <== I want this to be a hidden > > > > > field > > > > > > controller: > > > > > def Create(): > > > > > crud.settings.formstyle='table2cols' > > > > > form = crud.create(db.Dinners) > > > > > return dict(form=form) > > > > > > view: > > > > > {{=form}} > > > > > > Thanks! > >
