Massimo
Thanks for the info. With a little extra that I finally found in the
examples, I now have a working solution that I include below in case
it helps anyone else.
Controller function
def static():
filename='applications/%s/static/html/%s.html'%
(request.application,request.vars.key)
try:
htmlfile=open(filename).read()
return dict(htmlfile=XML(htmlfile)) # works if html does not
contain {{ }}
except:
response.view="error.html"
return dict(message="Unable to open static html file
%s"%filename)
View - static.html
{{extend 'my_layout.html'}}
{{def sidepanel():}} <!-- not necessary for this particular problem --
>
{{include 'sidepanel.html'}}
{{return}}
{{def mainpanel():}} <!-- if not containing static file then amend as
required -->
<div id="content">
{{=htmlfile}}
</div>
{{return}}
Usage is:
a request like "http://blah/my_application/my_controller/static?
key=puppy"
should return a page based on my_layout.html including a sidepanel
from views/sidepanel.html
and a main panel from my_application/static/html/puppy.html
If there is an error reading the target file then the response view is
"error.html" and it is passed a suitable message.
As I'm new to web2py and python I'd be interested in any feedback.
Bill
On Oct 7, 10:34 pm, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> file file contains pure HTML, not {{ }} code you can do:
>
> {{=XML(open(filename).read())}}
>
> if filename is a constains {{ }} code you must do
>
> {{include 'filename.html'}}
>
> You can also do
>
> {{include filename}}
>
> where filename is a variable but you would not be able to bytecode
> compile your app because views are parsed only once before byte-code
> compilation.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Oct 7, 4:29 pm, billf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What I want to do is include a variable html file (an html fragment)
> > in the middle of my page. I suppose I could use a server-side include
> > (SSI) but it seems easier to keep it in web2py.
>
> > I have my template that defines header, footer, whatever and in a
> > central content pane: let's call it static.html.
>
> > I want to include the html from a file, e.g. my_fragment.html. I can
> > see 2 options:
>
> > 1. a static.py controller that accepts a variable, gets the html (not
> > sure how you do that yet) and returns it as a dict(file=my_html) to
> > static.html and the view includes the contents of the variable.
>
> > 2. a static.py controller that returns the variable file name to
> > static.html view and the view gets the file and includes it.
>
> > Either way, it seems that I need the view to contain something like
> > {{include =file}} and I can't find an example of this or get it to
> > work by trial and error. {{include 'specific_file.html'}} works fine
> > but not what I want and I can't use an if...else...else as I don't
> > know all the possible files.
>
> > Am I barking up the wrong tree or is there a simple solution?
>
> > Bill
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