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2010/12/9 Andrew Evans <[email protected]> > Hello I am wondering if there is a way to limit the posts on my blog main > page to say 500 Characters and have a continue reading link from there on > each post. > > This is my query it uses pagination :D > > *def index(): > #Collect all posts in the db and use pagination > query = db.posts.id > 0 > orderby = ~db.posts.id > pcache = (cache.ram, 15) > paginate = Pagination(db, query, orderby, display_count=5, > cache=pcache, r=request, res=response) > # Now we get our subset. > rows=paginate.get_set(set_links=True) > return dict(rows=rows)* > > and my db tables :-) > > db.define_table('posts', > Field('userinfo', db.auth_user, default=auth.user_id, readable=False, > writable=False,unique=True), > Field('category',db.category, requires=IS_IN_DB(db,db.category.id > ,'%(name)s')), > > Field('created_on','datetime',default=datetime.datetime.today(),writable=False,readable=False), > Field('post_title', length=100, comment='Title of your post', > requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > Field('post_body', 'text', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), > Field('image','upload', label='Image', comment='(Max Size) 600px by > 600px', autodelete=True, requires=IS_IMAGE(extensions=('png', 'gif', 'jpg'), > maxsize=(600, 600)))) > > Thank you for any advice :-) > -- Bruno Rocha http://about.me/rochacbruno/bio
