for emails I used this, that allows you to place emails templates as views... quite useful http://wiki.web2py.com/Sending_Email_with_Plain_Text_HTML_Versions_plus_Attachments
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to call the function from another function in the same > controller, you could do something like this: > > def message(): > # Code to create variables needed for output. > return dict(var1=...,var2=...,etc.) > > def mail_sender(): > # Call the message() function and render its output using the > message.email view. > email_content=response.render('default/message.email', message()) > # Code to send the email message. > return # whatever this function should return > > > If you need to call message() from somewhere else, you could move the part > of the code that generates the variables for the output to a module or maybe > a model. Or you could try using urllib2.urlopen() or the web2py fetch() > function (see > http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/12#Fetching-an-external-URL). Just > create a message.email view and use the .email extension when calling the > URL. > > Anthony > > On Monday, July 18, 2011 5:47:31 AM UTC-4, Manuele wrote: >> >> hi *, >> >> I woulld like to reuse a controller function with a different view to >> get an html message to send via email... how is it possible? >> >> Is there a way from python code to get the html text that is returned >> when a browser call an url that correspond to my controller "dressed" by >> my view with the same name of my controller and, for example, with >> .email extension? >> >> many thanks >> >> Manuele >
