On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 9:55:25 AM UTC-8, Matthew J Watts wrote:
>
> Hi community
>
> I'm having a few problems trying to understand how create a cascading drop
> down list. I've followed this recipe -
>
>
> http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1526/cascading-drop-down-lists-with-ajax-2
>
> i've managed to adapt it slightly, but i'm having trouble trying to add
> more tables to the cascade/sequence
>
I'm not much of a menu person (I make use of ordinary anchor links for the
most part), but that example was probably written when BootStrap2 was the
css/javascript in use. Currently, web2py ships with BootStrap3, which
doesn't support more than 1 level of submenus. If you use stupid.css (as
in applications/example), you might not have that limitation, but I can't
show you what you want.
> It is quite difficult for me (a beginner) to suss out the logic behind it
>
>
Menus typically control what is shown by using javascript to manipulate
CSS. Simple menus may be CSS only, but then they'd be statically defined.
Good luck!
/dps
> So at the moment i have the code below, what i'm trying to do is return a
> list of values from the "tax_class" table, based on a selection from
> the "tax_phylum" table( based on sececting an entry from the kingdom
> table)
>
> *model*
>
> db.define_table('tax_kingdom',
> Field('name'))
>
> db.define_table('tax_phylum',
> Field('name', 'string'),
> Field('kingdom_id'))
> db.tax_phylum.kingdom_id.requires = IS_IN_DB(db, db.tax_kingdom.id,
> '%(name)s')
>
> db.define_table('tax_class',
> Field('name', 'string'),
> Field('phylum_id'))
> db.tax_class.phylum_id.requires = IS_IN_DB(db, db.tax_phylum.id, '%(name)s')
>
>
> *Controller*
>
> def index():
> kingdoms = db().select(db.tax_kingdom.ALL)
>
> if request.vars.kingdom_name:
> phylum_select = db(db.tax_phylum.id ==
> request.vars.kingdom_name).select(db.tax_phylum.ALL)
> else:
> phylum_select = db(db.tax_phylum.id == 1).select(db.tax_phylum.ALL)
> return dict(kingdoms=kingdoms, phylum_select=phylum_select)
>
>
> def phylum():
> phylums = db(db.tax_phylum.kingdom_id ==
> request.vars.kingdom_name).select(db.tax_phylum.ALL)
> result = ""
> for p in phylums:
> result += "<option value='" + str(p.id) + "'>" + p.name + "</option>"
> return XML(result)
>
>
>
> *view*
>
>
>
> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>
> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="{{URL()}}" method="post">
> <select name='kingdom_name'
> onchange="jQuery('#kingdom_name').empty();
> ajax('phylum', ['kingdom_name'], 'phylum_name');">
> {{for kingdom in kingdoms:}}
> <option value="{{=kingdom.id}}"
> {{=" selected='selected'" if
> str(kingdom.id)==request.vars.kingdom_name else ""}}>
> {{=kingdom.name}}
> </option>
> {{pass}}
> </select>
>
>
> <select id='phylum_name' name='phylum_name' >
> <!-- loop through the index function i -->
> {{for phylum in phylum_select:}}
> <option value="{{=phylum.id}}"
> {{=XML(" selected='selected'") if
> str(phylum.id)==request.vars.phylum_name else ""}}>
> {{=phylum.name}}</option>
> {{pass}}
> </select>
>
>
> </form>
>
>
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