Hi Anthony. Thanks for your answer. I seem to be unable to replicate what you said. How do you test if the checkboxes are checked?
On Dec 27, 2:16 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > You can submit multiple inputs (via id) with the ajax() function, so if you > give your checkbox inputs id's (e.g., id='title' and id='body'), you should > be able to do: > > ajax('callback', ['keyword', 'title', 'body'], 'target') > > and in the controller, access request.vars.keyword, request.vars.title, and > request.vars.body (I think title and body will be None if they are not > checked). > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:29:56 PM UTC-5, smirghor wrote: > > > In the example in chapter 3 of the book, mywiki application we have: > > > def search(): > > "an ajax wiki search page" > > return dict(form=FORM(INPUT(_id='keyword',_name='keyword', > > _onkeyup="ajax('callback', ['keyword'], 'target');")), > > target_div=DIV(_id='target')) > > > def callback(): > > "an ajax callback that returns a <ul> of links to wiki pages" > > query = db.page.title.contains(request.vars.keyword) > > pages = db(query).select(orderby=db.page.title) > > links = [A(p.title, _href=URL('show',args=p.id)) for p in pages] > > return UL(*links) > > > Assume that we would like to search a keyword both in the title and > > the body of the wiki in the following manner: > > 1. The default search searches in the title and body both. > > 2. We have two check boxes with the attribute name set to "title" and > > "body" respectively. Initially both are checked. But the user can > > uncheck one of them to request the application to search only in the > > other field. What is the best way to achieve this? > > > Specifically, if I add two checkboxes to the search function return > > expression, i.e.: > > INPUT(_type="checkbox", _name="title" ), "Title", > > INPUT(_type="checkbox", _name="body"), "Body", > > how I can check whether they are checked or not from within the > > callback function? I'd like to use these two checkboxes to express > > which fields of the database should be searched.
