Thanks for the response. I guess my question was more about why it's even possible with a web framework that is said to be designed for best practices, and more so, uses it in the only forms example in the documentation.
I'm new to web2py so I am trying to understand the "right" ways to do things, but this was a red flag that I figured had to have some explanation. Ryan On Sep 11, 12:54 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. The fact that you can do it, does not man you should do it. > > Sometime need to build HTML programmatically, for this reason web2py > provides a OOP server side representation of the DOM so that you never > have to manipulate strings in the controllers. > > You can use this to build forms but you do not have to. > > Often it is better to use > > form=SQLFORM.factory(Field(...), Field(...), Field(...)) > > and then customize the form in the view. > > Massimo > > On Sep 10, 8:13 pm, Ryan Montgomery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am new to web2py and I have some questions. The first one being: > > > Does the ability to creating Forms with html tables in the controller > > violate the principal of "Separationof Concerns"? Shouldn't this > > "view logic" be handled in the view and not in the controller? > > > Please reference example > > #28http://www.web2py.com/examples/default/examples#form_examples --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
