To pass information from one controller to another. I assume it is
poor programming practice then? I taught myself web programming on
web2py, so I have never had formal training and it was the easiest way
I could think of to do this. I think I have seen it in other posted
examples as well.
On Jan 20, 12:14 pm, Cliff <cjk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, in my application, I am passing navigational links in the
> > header, such as /app/controller/view/1/2/3
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> > Where 1/2/3 are things the controller and view use to set the correct
> > page.
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> Why are you doing this?
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> On Jan 19, 11:53 pm, web-dev-m <mgrave...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Currently, in my application, I am passing navigational links in the
> > header, such as /app/controller/view/1/2/3
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> > Where 1/2/3 are things the controller and view use to set the correct
> > page.
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> > In my application, I am finding two problems with this. First is
> > security. Although I have written validation on my controllers (I
> > hope), I just worry that with more users some malicious person will
> > find a way to get access they shouldn't.
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> > Second and more urgent is my application broke when I tried to write
> > my first ajax function, I assume because the navigational variables
> > are competing with the ajax variables somehow. I say this because
> > when I make the controller empty and just return a dict everything
> > works as normal. However, when I have the controller look for
> > variables in request.vars and I then try to call an ajax function, it
> > breaks hideously.
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> > I don't claim to be a great programmer, so it could definitely be a
> > convention I am not following.
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> > Has anyone had this problem before? How did you solve it? Should I
> > pass my request.vars into the session and then have the view call
> > them?
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> > I read in the book that I can do ajax trapping and I haven't tried
> > that yet, but I didn't think it would be necessary since I could make
> > it work without it. I will try it, but regardless I would love to get
> > some feedback.
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> > for clarity, my code causing problems is below:
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> > def my_func():
> > if request.args:
> > #First, I check to see if there is a record, if there is, I
> > get some information.
> > check=db(db.mydb.id==request.args(0)).select().first()
> > if check !=None:
> > records=db(db.mydb.id==request.args(0)).select()
> > row = db(db.mydb.id==request.args(0)).select().first()
> > counter=len(records)
> > #if it isnt, I make it with a function
> > else:
> > row = db(db.mydb.id==request.args(0)).select().first()
> > my_id=row.id
> > (filename, stream) =
> > db.mydb.myfield.retrieve(row.resourcefield)
> > myfunc(id,filename,stream)
> > records=db(db.mydb.id==request.args(0)).select()
> > counter=len(records)
> > pass
> > #if there is no specific document request, generate a list of
> > available files
> > else:
> > redirect(URL('mycontroller','this_function'))
> > return(counter=counter, records=records, row=row)
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> > def myajaxfunc():
> > form=SQLFORM(db.mydb2, _action="myajaxfunc")
> > if form.errors:
> > session.flash="Error: " + str(form.errors)
> > return XML(form)
>
> > my view:
>
> > {{for i in range(1,5):}}
> > <div id="my_div" onclick="ajax('myajaxfunc',[''],
> > 'mytarget_{{=str(i)}}')">Click me to add a note</div>
> > <div id="mytarget_{{=str(i)}}"></div>
> > {{pass}}
