works wonderfully thank you. Newbie me I didn't get that db.select was
returning a subset of the table in rows as opposed to a list of strings.
On Friday, July 26, 2013 12:14:11 PM UTC-4, lesssugar wrote:
>
> You could first create the list of links in the controller and then pass
> it to views via LOAD.
>
> Take a look at this (didn't test it but the idea should be clear):
>
> def getTags():
> #get row object
> tags = db().select(db.entry.tag,distinct=True)
> #incialize taglist variable, start with <ul> tag
> taglist = "<ul>"
> #iterate over tags row and create the list of links
> for t in tags:
> taglist += "<li><a href='controller/function/" + t.id + "'>" +
> t.name + "</a></li>"
> #add closing </ul> tag at the end
> taglist += "</ul>"
> return XML(taglist)
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 26, 2013 4:55:29 PM UTC+2, John Stricker wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to display unique entry tags on all pages of a website in a
>> bar on the left side. It seems the best place to put this info is in the
>> 'default.html', which could call a function using LOAD.
>>
>> So in the controller i have:
>>
>> def getTags():
>> """get a list of distinct entry tags"""
>> return db().select(db.entry.tag,distinct=True)
>>
>> then in the default.html i have:
>>
>> {{tags = LOAD('default','getTags')}}
>>
>> it looks like the info is getting through, as when i can print out the
>> list in default.html with {{=tags}} (which gives a bold header of
>> 'entry.tag' followed by all unique values) but its unclear how to iterate
>> over each of the values within the returned object. I'm guessing this is
>> returning a row object? How do I iterate over it to create links for each
>> unique entry?
>>
>>
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