The hidden fields will be in request.vars but not in form.vars because accepts does not know they are supposed to be there and protects you from injection attacks.
You can also try use this: form=SQLFORM(....,hidden=dict(key='value')) Massimo On Oct 24, 11:39 pm, Ruiwen Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies, I wasn't clear. I meant that the form in the view is static > HTML and not generated by SQLFORM. > > However, in the action that receives the POST, I instantiate a new > SQLFORM for that model and pass request.post_vars to it. > > On Oct 25, 12:30 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > if you use > > > form.accepts() > > > what is form if you do not use FORM or SQLFORM? > > > On Oct 24, 11:27 pm, Ruiwen Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have created a manual HTML form (not FORM() or SQLFORM()) that has a > > > few hidden fields (ie. <input type="hidden">..) > > > > When this form posts back to the controller, form.accepts() returns > > > True, but only the non-hidden field (there is only one, the rest are > > > hidden) is saved to the database. The other fields all get saved as > > > NULL. > > > > Is there something I'm missing? > > > > Thanks > >
