I want to have multiple users using my app and each content they produce
will be entitled to their accounts, that way if you make a comment for
example, your name will be by the comment and if another user should see
the comment, they'll see your name by the comment. if i can do this, i
believe i can do it for any other produced content, but here're the code
snippets followed by the problem I'm facing...
### Model ###
db.define_table('comment',
Field('content_id', 'reference content'),
Field('author'),
Field('body', 'text'))
### Controller ####
def show():
content = db.content(request.args(0)) or redirect(URL('index'))
db.comment.content_id.default = content.id
form = crud.create(db.comment,
next=URL(args=content.id))
form.custom.widget.author = auth.user.first_name +' '+
auth.user.last_name
comments = db(db.comment.content_id==content.id).select()
return dict(content=content, comments=comments, form=form)
### View ###
<h2>Post a comment</h2>
{{=form.custom.begin}}
<div style='float:left;'>Author:</div> <div style="overflow:hidden;
margin-left:78;">{{=form.custom.widget.author}}</div>
<div style='float:left;'>Comment:</div> <div style="overflow:hidden;
margin-left:78;">{{=form.custom.widget.body}}</div>
<div style='float:left;'></div> <div style="overflow:hidden;
margin-left:78;">{{=form.custom.submit}}</div>
{{=form.custom.end}}
Problem: the comment displays None for the author but the comment itself is
posted though. This line of code is in the models too.
db.comment.author.writable = False
That way, the author's name can't be altered and is automatically set to
the currently logged in user's name.
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How do I change the "None" to the name of the Author?
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