or use a computed field ?
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 7:24:36 PM UTC+1, Derek wrote:
>
> 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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