The rendered form is as:
<form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
...
</form>
It has no attribute id.
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:05:02 AM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>
> What's not working? When you view the HTML code of the rendered page in
> the browser, is the id not there, or is it just that some client-side CSS
> or JS isn't working as expected? If the latter, the problem could be that
> you have put the form beginning and ending code inside the <table></table>
> tags rather than outside, where they belong. Should be:
>
> {{=login_form.custom.begin}}
> <table>
> [snip]
> </table>
> {{=login_form.custom.end}}
>
> Anthony
>
> On Monday, March 12, 2012 2:07:20 PM UTC-4, Sushant Taneja wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried both but none seems to be working. Here's my view code:
>>
>> <div id="formContainer">
>> <table>
>> {{=login_form.custom.begin}}
>> <tr>
>> <td
>> colspan='2'>{{=login_form.custom.widget.email}}</td>
>> </tr>
>> <tr>
>> <td
>> colspan='2'>{{=login_form.custom.widget.password}}</td>
>> </tr>
>> <tr>
>> <td><a href="#" id="flipToRecover"
>> class="flipLink">Forgot Password?</a></td>
>> <td>{{=login_form.custom.submit}}</td>
>> </tr>
>> {{=login_form.custom.end}}
>> </table>
>>
>> Please suggest.
>>
>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 11:32:04 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> That should work. Can you show the view code? Also, note you can just do:
>>>
>>> login_form['_id'] = 'login'
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 1:19:45 PM UTC-4, Sushant Taneja wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I tried customizing the form. I have to set the id of the form element
>>>> to login.
>>>> To achieve the above I used the following statement in controller:
>>>>
>>>> login_form = auth.login()
>>>>
>>>> # Configure form properties
>>>> login_form.attributes['_id']='login'
>>>>
>>>> But it's not working. The generated form does not contain any id
>>>> attribute.
>>>> Is there another way to do it ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sushant
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 8:01:33 PM UTC+5:30, Sushant Taneja wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for an explanatory answer.
>>>>> I will try this out.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 7:49:28 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> def index():
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> login_form = auth.login()
>>>>>>> if login_form.process(session=None,formname='login').accepted:
>>>>>>> pass
>>>>>>> elif login_form.errors:
>>>>>>> response.write(request.vars)
>>>>>>> return dict()
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to display the form I have used the SQLForm in HTML technique as
>>>>>>> mentioned in the web2py book
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Whenever user enters the correct email and password. auth_event
>>>>>>> registers a login event with the description *User 1 Logged In*.
>>>>>>> The next property redirects the URL to /user/profile but auth.user
>>>>>>> object is *None.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> auth.login() handles it's own form processing, and it uses the
>>>>>> session when calling form.accepts (which adds a hidden _formkey field to
>>>>>> the form, which must be present upon form submission). In your code, you
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> not return the form object to the view, which means your view cannot
>>>>>> include the hidden _formkey field, which is therefore not submitted with
>>>>>> the form. So, when the form is submitted, the form.accepts in
>>>>>> auth.login()
>>>>>> fails, which means the user object is never stored in session.auth.user
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> hence, auth.user is None. The reason the login submission is successful
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> that your index() function then does its own processing of the login
>>>>>> form,
>>>>>> which is successful -- but your explicit call to login_form.process()
>>>>>> does
>>>>>> not do anything to set auth.user, so it is never set.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In short, you should not be doing your own processing of the login
>>>>>> form -- let auth.login() handle that. And if you want to customize the
>>>>>> form
>>>>>> display in the view, you still have to return the form to the view so
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> can include the hidden _formkey and _formname fields in the form (you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> use form.custom.end to do that).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 1:19:45 PM UTC-4, Sushant Taneja wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I tried customizing the form. I have to set the id of the form element
>>>> to login.
>>>> To achieve the above I used the following statement in controller:
>>>>
>>>> login_form = auth.login()
>>>>
>>>> # Configure form properties
>>>> login_form.attributes['_id']='login'
>>>>
>>>> But it's not working. The generated form does not contain any id
>>>> attribute.
>>>> Is there another way to do it ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sushant
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 8:01:33 PM UTC+5:30, Sushant Taneja wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for an explanatory answer.
>>>>> I will try this out.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, March 12, 2012 7:49:28 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> def index():
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> login_form = auth.login()
>>>>>>> if login_form.process(session=None,formname='login').accepted:
>>>>>>> pass
>>>>>>> elif login_form.errors:
>>>>>>> response.write(request.vars)
>>>>>>> return dict()
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to display the form I have used the SQLForm in HTML technique as
>>>>>>> mentioned in the web2py book
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Whenever user enters the correct email and password. auth_event
>>>>>>> registers a login event with the description *User 1 Logged In*.
>>>>>>> The next property redirects the URL to /user/profile but auth.user
>>>>>>> object is *None.*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> auth.login() handles it's own form processing, and it uses the
>>>>>> session when calling form.accepts (which adds a hidden _formkey field to
>>>>>> the form, which must be present upon form submission). In your code, you
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> not return the form object to the view, which means your view cannot
>>>>>> include the hidden _formkey field, which is therefore not submitted with
>>>>>> the form. So, when the form is submitted, the form.accepts in
>>>>>> auth.login()
>>>>>> fails, which means the user object is never stored in session.auth.user
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> hence, auth.user is None. The reason the login submission is successful
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> that your index() function then does its own processing of the login
>>>>>> form,
>>>>>> which is successful -- but your explicit call to login_form.process()
>>>>>> does
>>>>>> not do anything to set auth.user, so it is never set.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In short, you should not be doing your own processing of the login
>>>>>> form -- let auth.login() handle that. And if you want to customize the
>>>>>> form
>>>>>> display in the view, you still have to return the form to the view so
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> can include the hidden _formkey and _formname fields in the form (you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> use form.custom.end to do that).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>>
>>>>>
