Thanks! Dave, been using web2py since 2010 :) however not been active in
coding from last few months.. (kinda lost touch) I'll get over it quickly
though.
Rahul
On Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:09:10 AM UTC+5:30, Dave S wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, June 20, 2014 1:14:59 AM UTC-7, Rahul wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave, All,
>> I found a solution - It was easy -
>> wrote a new function that takes a parameter, called it in the view and it
>> redirects to the required page.
>>
>
> Glad you got it going. You're moving ahead faster than I am :-)
>
> /dps
>
>
>>
>> query = (db.fotoz.album_name == "%s" % request.args(0))
>>
>>
>>
>> and have this
>> <p> <a href="{{=URL(r=request, c='default', f='view_album',
>> args=[allalbums[i].album_name])}}" class="btn">View Album</a></p>
>>
>>
>> in view.
>>
>> That sends the argument to this function and displays the album. The only
>> issue is with spaces in album names that dont work. But I would find a
>> workaround over it.
>>
>> We can consider this thread closed. Thanks Everyone.
>>
>> Cheers, Rahul
>>
>> A few threads that helped... -
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/WJtJ-QDemTM
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9328126/web2py-connecting-to-the-correct-controller
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/ICo5-yFgxmc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 20, 2014 10:24:42 AM UTC+5:30, Rahul wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks! for replying Dave. While I am open to suggestions, I plan to
>>> redirect the request such that as soon as the user clicks on any album
>>> thumbnail - he gets redirected to a page (perhaps viewalbum.html) where all
>>> images belonging to a particular album are listed.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Rahul.
>>>
>>> On Friday, June 20, 2014 12:31:14 AM UTC+5:30, Dave S wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:50:09 AM UTC-7, Rahul wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> I am writing an image gallery in my app. I am stuck up here -
>>>>> I want to display images that belong to a particular album when I
>>>>> select that album in the view. Although I am able to display albums in
>>>>> the
>>>>> view, but cannot proceed further to display images belonging to that
>>>>> particular albums after clicking the album (from the view).
>>>>>
>>>>> here are the table in *db.py* -
>>>>> db.define_table('photoalbum',
>>>>> Field('reguser_id'),
>>>>> Field('album_name'),
>>>>> Field('short_description'),
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> db.define_table(photos',
>>>>> Field('reguser_id'),
>>>>> Field('caption'),
>>>>> Field('category', requires=IS_IN_SET(pix_cat)),
>>>>> Field('description', 'text'),
>>>>> Field('upload_photo', 'upload' , uploadfolder=request.folder + '
>>>>> static/uploads', default=0, autodelete=True,),
>>>>> Field('album_name', requires=IS_IN_SET(albums)),
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> I would think you want the last line to be a reference, like
>>>>> Field('album_name',
>>>>> 'reference photoalbum');
>>>>>
>>>>> Controller - *default.py *
>>>>>
>>>>> def myalbums():
>>>>>
>>>>> ## selects all albums
>>>>> allalbums = db(db.photoalbum.reguser_id == session.
>>>>> logged_in_user_id). select(db.photoalbum.album_name)
>>>>>
>>>>> # selects descriptions for all albums
>>>>> alldescriptions = db(db.photoalbum.reguser_id == session.
>>>>> logged_in_user_id). select(db.photoalbum.short_description)
>>>>>
>>>>> ## selects photos
>>>>> allimages = db(db.photos.reguser_id == session.logged_in_user_id).
>>>>> select(db.photos.upload_photo, db.photos.caption, db.photos.
>>>>> description, cache=(cache.ram,20))
>>>>>
>>>>> return dict(allalbums=allalbums, alldescriptions=alldescriptions,
>>>>> allimages=allimages)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Code in the view *myalbum.html*
>>>>> <!-- New Try -->
>>>>>
>>>>> {{for i in range(len(allalbums)):}}
>>>>>
>>>>> <ul class="thumbnails">
>>>>> <!-- Iterate over all images - -->
>>>>> <li class="span2">
>>>>> <div class="thumbnail">
>>>>> <!-- <img data-src="holder.js/300x200" alt="300x200" style="">
>>>>> -->
>>>>>
>>>>> {{=(A(IMG(_src=URL(r=request,c='static\images',f='vimage.jpg'
>>>>> )),_href=URL (r=request,c='default', f='myalbums', args=[allalbums[i].
>>>>> album_name]) ))}}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <div class="caption">
>>>>> <h5>{{=allalbums[i].album_name}}</h5>
>>>>> <p>{{=alldescriptions[i].short_description}}</p>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> </div>
>>>>>
>>>>> </div>
>>>>> </li>
>>>>>
>>>>> {{pass}}
>>>>> {{pass}}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here I can get the album names in the view but when I click on it, it
>>>>> should query all the photos belonging to that particular (as specified in
>>>>> args) albumname and show all images in another page or a carousel that I
>>>>> would create.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Do you want a redirect, or to have multiple pages open at a time?
>>>>
>>>> In either case, don't you need a link (to another controller) or an
>>>> action (from a form) that would query for somethng like
>>>> db(photos.album_name == var.album_name).select() ?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not a dab hand at this; I'm still bouncing back and forth in the
>>>> manual as I type this,
>>>> <
>>>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#One-to-many-relation
>>>> >
>>>> but there's a bunch of examples in the recent posts to this list.
>>>>
>>>> Grabbing one thread rather quickly, this one might have some pertinence:
>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/nDBOL7w6qB4/3181A5kRWSAJ>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Again - The image vimage.jpg specified in the view is a static image,
>>>>> can the thumbnail image representing a particular album be created from
>>>>> an
>>>>> image from within the album ? Please suggest ..
>>>>>
>>>>> I've read about the thumbnail processing in the book, and a couple of
>>>> examples in the groups since last summer, but haven't actually tried it.
>>>> So I'll defer to others, other than to say that "seems possible".
>>>>
>>>> /dps
>>>>
>>>>
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