On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 1:05:38 AM UTC-7, Maurice Waka wrote:
>
> 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>
>
The issue is that you are trying to do this without reloading the page?
I think we previously discussed the LOAD() helper and the ajax() function
<URL:http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/11/jquery-and-ajax#The-ajax-function>
I don't remember why those didn't work for you., but I think that would
have been the simplest route.
/dps
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:26 AM Anthony <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> 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]
>>> <javascript:>> 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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