Hi Mike. Here's my hack.
*static/anHTMLfile.html* *<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>anHTMLfile</title></head><body>HELLO from anHTMLfile.html <br/>see <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/Wqipxb_5-j4";>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/Wqipxb_5-j4</a></body></html>controllers/default.py* *def showHTMLFile(): ''' https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/Wqipxb_5-j4 ''' import os with open(os.path.join(request.folder, 'static', 'anHTMLfile.html')) as x: file_contents = x.read() return dict(file_contents=XML(file_contents))views/default/showHTMLfile.html* *{{=file_contents}}Love and peace,* *Joe* On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 8:14:45 AM UTC-7, Mike Stephenson wrote: > > I tried the following but it didn't work. > in controller: > > def rough(): > import os > file = open(os.path.join(request.folder, 'static','index.html')) > return locals() > > > in view: > > {{extend 'layout.html'}} > {{=file}} > -- 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.
