You'd probably want to have a javascript that calls a special function on
your controller that returns the results from gethostbyname().
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:46:04 AM UTC-7, Saba wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I have a table like this:
>
> db.define_table('host',
> Field('host_name', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()),
> Field('host_ip', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY())
> )
>
> i'm using SQLFORM.grid to display/edit the data in the table. When a user
> inputs a host_name field, I would like to automatically populate the
> host_ip field by doing an nslookup of the host_name. Is there a way to do
> this. Any suggestions please?
>
> thanks,
> Saba
>
>
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