Sorry, my misunderstanding. Thanks for clarifying, Bruno.
Anthony
On Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:53:34 PM UTC-5, rochacbruno wrote:
>
> 2011/1/27 David J. <da...@styleflare.com>
>
>> I asked before "what is the easiest way to add a non-database field to the
>> registration form"
>>
>>
>> Right now I dont see an easy way to do this;
>>
>
> You can interact with the HTML for the FORM object.
>
> form = auth()
> form.elements[0].append(SOME_OTHER_ELEMENT)
>
> The FORM is rendered as HTML by the web2py template system, it happens just
> when it is passed to response.write (which is similar to print statement)
>
> If you try
>
> in controllers/default.py
> def myauth(): return dict(form=auth())
>
> then in view you do:
>
> {{=dir(response._vars['form'])}}
> {{=type(response._vars['form'])}}
>
> You get:
> *DIR*
> ['FIELDKEY_DELETE_RECORD', 'FIELDNAME_REQUEST_DELETE', 'ID_LABEL_SUFFIX',
> 'ID_ROW_SUFFIX', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dict__',
> '__doc__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__hash__',
> '__init__', '__len__', '__module__', '__new__', '__nonzero__', '__reduce__',
> '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__',
> '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_fixup', '_postprocessing',
> '_setnode', '_traverse', '_validate', '_wrap_components', '_xml', 'accepts',
> 'append', 'attributes', 'components', 'custom', 'element', 'elements',
> 'errors', 'factory', 'field_parent', 'fields', 'flatten', 'formkey',
> 'formname', 'formstyle', 'hidden_fields', 'ignore_rw', 'insert',
> 'keepvalues', 'latest', 'parent', 'record', 'record_changed', 'record_id',
> 'regex_attr', 'regex_class', 'regex_id', 'regex_tag', 'request_vars',
> 'session', 'sibling', 'siblings', 'table', 'tag', 'update', 'vars',
> 'widgets', 'xml']
>
> *TYPE*
> <class 'gluon.sqlhtml.SQLFORM'>
>
> If you try
>
> {{=form}} which is the same as {{respose.write(form)}} then you get the
> object rendered as HTML.
>
> Until this point you have only a object types as <class
> 'gluon.sqlhtml.SQLFORM'>
>
> *Manipulation of the SQLFORM object*
>
> {{=form.elements()[0].insert(0,LABEL('test:',INPUT(_type='text')))}}
>
> or in a more comprehensive way
>
> {{=form.elements('form tr td')[0].insert(0,INPUT())}}
>
> But, I think it is possible to catch that *class* object and perform some
> kind of redraw method before the html rendering.
>
>
