On 3 Feb, 07:04, "Jack Oswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just created my first, very simple, Django app. Using the URL as a > way to pass in parameters, I capture information and use a template to > create an iCal file. I intend to put this up on the web to allow anyone who > wants to add a link to a web page (especially static pages) a link that > returns a properly formatted iCal file so page visitors can get a scheduled > item into their calendar easily. > > The challenge that I ran into is this. I was easily able to capture the > values I needed from the URL and have them passed into the View function. > In addition to rendering the template and passing it back to the browser I > want to capture the passed in parameters in a database. The only way I > could get this to work was to create an empty instance of the database model > and then set each field value one at a time from the passed in parameters > from the URL. I was surprised that I could not simply do the following: > > Def makeicalEvent(request, summary, location, start_date, start_time, ...) > > p = icalEvent(summary, location, start_date, start_time, ...) > > and have it create a new instance and fill the field values. I tried adding > an __init__ function to the model but that didn't work either. What did > work was this: > > p= icalEvent() > p.summary = summary > p.location = location > ... > > Seems odd to me. > > Jack
You can use keyword arguments: p = icalEvent(summary=summary, location=location, start_date=start_date, start_time=start_time, ...) -- DR --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
