I figured this work if I have the name attributes for the checkboxes (and in my case the name attributes are the same as the id attributes). Thanks again!
On Dec 27, 5:19 pm, smirghor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
