Thank you Jim, I'll try it out but i think JavaScript may just be my way
out like you said but I'll give your solution a try, thanks.
On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 12:53:12 AM UTC+2, Jim S wrote:
>
> Based on my experience and simple web protocols, you can't do what you
> want. You could however combine all the images into one file (a zip file)
> and download that zip file. In your controller you could do something like
> this:
>
> import os
> import StringIO
> import zipfile
>
> tempfile = StringIO.StringIO()
> ziph = zipfile.ZipFile(tempfile, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
>
> # psuedo code here
> loop through all the picture files you want to download:
> ziph.write(file) # add the file to the zip file - 'file' needs to be
> full path of the file
>
> ziph.close()
> response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment;filename=images.zip'
> response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/zip'
> rtn = tempfile.getvalue()
> tempfile.close()
>
> return rtn
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> If you truly want to download multiple files at once I think you're going
> to have to go with some javascript magic. Since it is a bit of
> non-standard way of doing things I've never attempted...
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 4:00:13 PM UTC-6, mostwanted wrote:
>>
>> I have a table which stores different images of different places, what i
>> want is for the site users to be able to download all the images of a
>> selected place
>> by clicking the download button without having to download the images one
>> at a time. How can i achieve this??
>>
>> I tried this below:
>>
>> *MODEL:*db.define_table('location',
>> Field('Image', 'upload'),
>> Field('formTitle', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
>> Field('place', 'reference
>> area'),migrate=False,fake_migrate=True)
>>
>>
>> *CONTROLLER*def areas():
>> form=db.place(request.args(0))
>> images=db(db.location.place==form.id).select(db.location.ALL)
>> return dict(images=images, form=form)
>>
>>
>> *VIEW*{{extend 'layout.html'}}
>>
>> {{for pics in images:}}
>> > href="{{=URL('download',args=pics.Image)}}">Download
>> {{pass}}
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately the above attempts do not give me what i want, please
>> assist.
>> Thank you.
>>
>
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