Hmm, that is odd. Can you send the whole app? On the admin Site page, just click the "pack all" button for the app, and it will pack everything into a .w2p file.
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:15:18 PM UTC-4, Hal Smith wrote: > My controllers/default.py define index() has the return dic code. > > My views/default/index.html contains only the code in the manual (I deleted > everything else). > > Attached is a screen dump of the output. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Anthony <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* Hal Smith <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wed, March 23, 2011 3:36:05 PM > *Subject:* Re: Runnning my new app > > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:58:45 PM UTC-4, Hal Smith wrote: >> >> This is the kind of thing I have been wondering about: what is going on >> under the hood? >> >> I was simply doing what the manual told me to do - even if I wasn't sure >> what it wanted. The manual needs to be updated. >> > > Note, if you're on p. 88 doing the "Say Hello" example, you have not yet > gotten to the stuff about using layouts and {{include}} -- that stuff starts > in p. 92 in the "Let's Count" section. Because ch. 3 is tutorial style, > explanations tend to be limited to what's going on with the immediate > example, so you learn the details progressively. On p. 87, you learn that > returning a string from your controller function simply sends the string as > is to the browser (it's not inserted into any view/template). On p. 88, you > learn that if you return a dictionary (instead of a string), web2py looks > for the associated view file (and uses the generic view if it can't be > found). And then on p. 92, you learn about extending a layout template. > > I think the instruction about editing index.html on p. 88 could probably be > improved. First, where it says "the new file associated with the action", it > should probably say "the view file associated with the action". Second, it > should probably explicitly say to completely replace the existing index.html > content with the example code to avoid confusion. I'll make some edits to > help clarify. > > As for the numbers above and below your message, I can't explain that. Are > you sure your index.html includes only the text from p. 88 and your > controller is just: > > def index(): > return dict(message="Hello from MyApp") > > Anthony >
