All I needed is to pass a current value to the db/controller from the html.
After much working, I found that using this was one the best options:
<script>
jQuery('#myform').submit(function() {
ajax('{{=URL('view_searche')}}',
['message'], 'chat');
return false;
});
</script>
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:26 AM Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, read the documentation at
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators, as
> you do not appear to be following it. If for some reason you do not want to
> use the built-in form functionality, just create an HTML form, and in the
> action that receives the submission, the submitted form values will be
> available in request.vars -- from there, you can do whatever you want with
> the data.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Saturday, July 7, 2018 at 6:02:55 PM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>> I'll need your help. Am still stuck at this. I note that only when I
>> refresh the page, will I get the latest 'request.vars.value' gets posted to
>> the controller.
>>
>> 1. Is there a way of auto-refreshing the controller?
>> 2. Is there a better method that this......Following your suggested
>> option of {{form.custom.end}} i ended up with a blank page instead, hence
>> going to the basics.
>> 3. My aim is that when a user posts input, I retrieve it from what
>> ever means....request.vars etc, then send to the functions to process..
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:33 PM Maurice Waka <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I managed to go to the basics and got some progress:
>>> def searches():
>>> form = FORM(INPUT(_name='message'), INPUT(_type='submit'))
>>> code = request.vars.message
>>> return dict(code=code)
>>>
>>> view:
>>> <form enctype = "multipart/form-data" action = "{{= URL()}}" method =
>>> "post" class="hidden">
>>> <select data-conv-question="Hello!
>>> I'm a bot created from a HTML form. Can I show you some features? (this
>>> question comes from a select)">
>>> <option value="yes">Yes</option>
>>> <option
>>> value="sure">Sure!</option>
>>> </select>
>>> <input type="text" name="message"
>>> data-conv-question="Alright! First, type one word e.g. 'exercise', or ask a
>>> question.|Okay! you can type one word e.g. 'Soy', or ask a question.">
>>> <input type="text"
>>> data-conv-question="{{=code}}" data-no-answer="true">
>>>
>>> </form>
>>>
>>> However, as a test, when retrieving data to controller, the request.vars
>>> does not give me the immediate user posted data, instead the previous data
>>> posted. For example, if the user posts 'abcd', with the previous post
>>> having been '1234', I'll get '1234' returned and not 'abcd'.
>>> Is there a way of cleaning up request.vars and getting the CURRENT
>>> posted data?
>>> Thanks for the help, God bless!
>>>
>>> On Friday, July 6, 2018 at 12:49:23 PM UTC-4, Maurice Waka wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've changed from method='GET' to method ='POST', name=message ' (the
>>>>> table name) etc. But I seem to have an issue with the highlighted part.
>>>>> It's still not posting. Could you please give an example of how this can
>>>>> work?
>>>>> <form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST"
>>>>> class="hidden">
>>>>> <select data-conv-question="Hello!
>>>>> I'm a bot created from a HTML form. Can I show you some features? (this
>>>>> question comes from a select)">
>>>>> <option
>>>>> value="yes">Yes</option>
>>>>> <option
>>>>> value="sure">Sure!</option>
>>>>> </select>
>>>>> <input type="text" name="message"
>>>>> data-conv-question="Alright! First, type one word e.g. 'exercise', or ask
>>>>> a
>>>>> question.|Okay! you can type one word e.g. 'Soy', or ask a question.">
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What exactly is the problem with that line? What are you expecting and
>>>> what do you observe?
>>>>
>>>> Note, if you're using SQLFORM, you'll need to include
>>>> {{=form.custom.end}} to make sure the hidden formname and formkey fields
>>>> are included. Please read the documentation.
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
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