You have two options:
<a href="{{=URL('page')}}">click me</a>
or
{{=A('click me',_href=URL('page'))}}
Notice it is {{=URL('page')}}, not {{URL('page')}}
Hope this helps.
On Feb 20, 8:13 pm, RKS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello. Coming over from the php world and I started a new job where we
> use web2py and python. I'm trying to wrap my head around how it's
> handling the paths to pages I create and I can't find my answers in
> the docs. Probably I'm just missing it but I can't seem to figure it
> out.
>
> I've already created the layout.html and all the page.html files
> located in views/default/page.html. I added
>
> <code>
> def page():
> return dict()
> </code>
>
> in default.py. Now I'm trying various methods of adding anchors into
> my html and everything returns an invalid error. For example, <a
> href="/page">, <a href="~/page">, <a href={{URL...something}}> and
> nothing seems to work. I'm running it from 127.1.1.8000. I'm at home
> so I don't have my specific code here.
>
> I'm actually the designer so I'm running the web2py OSX Lion app while
> the developers are running Ubuntu and I've noticed a couple of things
> are different based on that. Perhaps the way they were doing it needs
> to be changed for the web2py app? Already some things that work in
> Linux had to be changed to work on my Mac.
>
> Also, what is the correct method to reference css and <img src> images
> that are located in the static/images directory?
>
> Thanks and I look forward to meeting more python developers and
> getting to know web2py a bit more. I'm coming over from a background
> in php, asp, and vb. I hate asp and vb and was forced into it where I
> used to work and so I'm super excited to be working with python now
> instead. The only good thing I took from asp was the C and that helps
> with iOS so it wasn't all bad but...
>
> I'll shut up now. Thanks for your help.
