If you are using crud, you should not do form.accepts -- crud.create will
handle the form.accepts for you.
See http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#CRUD.
Anthony
On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 4:29:24 PM UTC-4, Omi Chiba wrote:
>
> I'm creating a simple twitter like app for fun. To submit worked with
> {{=form}} and now I'm using form.custom.xxx for customization.
>
> It works fine if I comment out the following from default.py but
> form.vars will be empty and the record will not be created with the
> two lines.
>
> if form.accepts(request.vars, session):
> redirect(URL())
>
> Any idea what's happening and do you know how to solve this problem?
>
>
> db.py
> ----------
> db.define_table('comment',
> Field('body', 'text', length=140),
> Field('created_on', 'datetime', default=request.now),
> Field('created_by', db.auth_user, default=auth.user_id,
> ondelete='NO ACTION'))
>
> db.comment.body.requires = IS_NOT_EMPTY()
> db.comment.created_on.writable = db.comment.created_on.readable =
> False
> db.comment.created_by.writable = db.comment.created_by.readable =
> False
>
> default.py
> ---------------------
> @auth.requires_login()
> def index():
> comments = db().select(db.comment.ALL,
> orderby=~db.comment.created_on)
> form = crud.create(db.comment)
> if form.accepts(request.vars, session):
> redirect(URL())
> return dict(comments=comments, form=form)
>
> default/index.html
> ----------------------------------
>
> {{extend 'layout.html'}}
>
> <h1>What's happening ?</h1>
> {{=form.custom.begin}}
> {{=form.custom.widget.body}}
> {{=form.custom.submit}}
> {{=form.custom.end}}
>
> {{=BEAUTIFY(request.vars)}}
> {{=form.vars}}
>
> <h1>What's happened ?</h1>
> {{for comment in comments:}}
> <div><b>{{=db.auth_user[comment.created_by].first_name}}
> {{=db.auth_user[comment.created_by].last_name}}</b> - {{=comment.body}}
> </div>
> <br/>
> {{pass}}
>
