The function location isn't working anymore now. :'(
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 11:16:05 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>
> Same problem -- the URL() function is Python code executed on the server,
> but you are attempting to pass in Javascript variables. Should be:
>
> ajax('{{=URL('default', 'location')}}' + '?lat=' + visitor_lat + '&lon=' +
> visitor_lon, [], ':eval');
>
> Notice that you must use Javascript in order to construct the URL based on
> Javascript variables.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 12:29:27 PM UTC-5, Rgb Aston wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Anthony. I tried fixing it this way but it didn't work either.
>>
>>
>> Instead of:
>> {{session.lat=visitor_lat}}
>> {{session.lon=visitor_lon }}
>> I put:
>> ajax('{{=URL('default', 'location', vars=dict(lat=visitor_lat,
>> lon=visitor_lon))}}', [], ':eval');
>>
>> and my function location stays as:
>>
>> def location():
>> lat=request.vars.lat
>> lon=request.vars.lon
>> device=str(request.user_agent)
>> start=device.find("HTTP_USER_AGENT") + 18
>> end=device.find("HTTP_CONNECTION") - 3
>> session.p=mail.send('[email protected] <javascript:>',
>> 'Someone just checked your ePortfolio',
>> message='<html><style></style><body><h1
>> style="background-color:lightblue;display:inline" >Hi!</h1><br><div
>> style="width:500px;height:100px;background-color:pink;opacity:0.8"><h3
>> style="font-size:1em">you have a new visitor from ip address:
>> %s</h3><h3>from latitude: %s and longitude: %s<h3>with device: %s</h3>
>> </div></body></html>' %(str(request.client), str(lat), str(lon),
>> device[start:end] ))
>>
>>
>>
>> however now it says:
>> <type 'exceptions.NameError'> name 'visitor_lat' is not defined
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 10:28:41 PM UTC+5:30, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> You cannot combine Python and Javascript. The Python code is executed on
>>> the server *before* the HTML page is returned to the browser, and the
>>> Javascript is executed later in the browser. If you need to put something
>>> in the session from Javascript, you would have to pass the relevant data to
>>> web2py via an Ajax call and have the called function write the data to the
>>> session.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 11:40:50 AM UTC-5, Rgb Aston wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=
>>>> <YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY>"></script>
>>>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>>> if(google.loader.ClientLocation)
>>>> {
>>>> visitor_lat = google.loader.ClientLocation.latitude;
>>>> visitor_lon = google.loader.ClientLocation.longitude;
>>>> visitor_city = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city;
>>>> visitor_region =
>>>> google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region;
>>>> visitor_country =
>>>> google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country;
>>>> visitor_countrycode =
>>>> google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country_code;
>>>> document.getElementById('yourinfo').innerHTML =
>>>> '<p>Lat/Lon: ' + visitor_lat + ' / ' + visitor_lon + '</p><p>Location: ' +
>>>> visitor_city + ', ' + visitor_region + ', ' + visitor_country + ' (' +
>>>> visitor_countrycode + ')</p>';
>>>> {{session.lat=visitor_lat}}
>>>> {{session.lon=visitor_lon }}
>>>> }
>>>> else
>>>> {
>>>> document.getElementById('yourinfo').innerHTML =
>>>> '<p>Whoops!</p>';
>>>> }
>>>> </script>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> error:
>>>>
>>>> <type 'exceptions.NameError'> name 'visitor_lat' is not defined
>>>>
>>>
--
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/d/optout.
