I think you need form.accepts(.....,keepvalues=True)
On Feb 28, 3:42 am, murray3 <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a test Wiki Controller which now defines a form with the > properties > I can customise, I have a text area which is edited by nicEdit. On > submit > saves contents to my db. and can be dispalayed on another page with > {{=XML(page.body,sanitize=True)}} > while this is OK, when clicking submit, the code clears the textarea > on submit. > If I click submit again it will display the previous saved/displayed > data. > A third iteration of above process and the cleared textarea will be > submitted and > so "erase" the previous data. > > I need to stop the code "clearing" the textarea on submit, should be > ok after that, > but how??? > > here is controller code: > > def edit(): > try: thispage=db(db.page.id==request.args[0]).select()[0] > except: redirect(URL(r=request,f='index')) > form=FORM(DIV(TEXTAREA(_style="width: 98%;", > _name="wikibody1", > _id="wikibody1",_value=XML(thispage.body,sanitize=True))),INPUT > (_type="submit",_value="Save")) > if form.accepts(request.vars,session): > thispage.update_record(body=form.vars.wikibody1) > response.flash="form accepted!" > elif form.errors: > response.flash="form is invalid!" > return dict(form=form,page=thispage) > > thanks > chrism > p.s. I do read as much of the documentation to try and solve these > problems, but some of the syntax is still in a "black box" - when I > have time I will learn the underlying code but it would be nice to > just get some stuff working and get some pos' feedback. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
