Have you read the Forms and Validators section in the book? I think it explains everything pretty well.
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators Specifically, I'd look at SQLFORM.grid http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#SQLFORM.grid -Jim On Monday, November 4, 2013 2:19:17 PM UTC-6, Noah wrote: > > I have a relational database structure containing 3 tables, set up in the > model as follows: > > db.define_table('author', > Field('name', 'string'), > Field('bio', 'text')) > > db.define_table('link', > Field('name', 'string'), > Field('description', 'text')) > > db.define_table('post', > Field('body','text',label="Post Body"), > Field('authorID', db.author), > Field('linkID', db.link), > Field('posted_on','datetime',readable=False,writable=False), > Field('posted_by','reference auth_user',readable=False,writable=False)) > > I want to create a form that allows the user to submit a Post using the > following inputs: > > - Post Body -(db.post.body) > - Author Name -(db.author.name) > - Link Name -(db.link.name) > > If the author name or link name already exists in the database, it doesn't > need adding to that table again. Instead the post should just be inserted > using the existing IDs. > > I'm way over my head on this one.. I'm just learning Web2Py. > Thanks for any help! > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
