Have you looked at http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/7#Custom-forms and http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/7#Custom-forms. Note, in the latter case, if you want CSRF protection, you'll also need to add the hidden _formkey field in addition to the _formname field.
Anthony On Friday, March 2, 2012 1:03:37 PM UTC-5, fabien wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm writing my first non-trivial web2py application, and I have a hard > time keeping my HTML boilerplate in views rather than in controllers. > > More specifically, some of my FORMs feature a lot of fancy markup + > javascript. Since they deal mostly with HTML, I'd rather put them in > HTML view templates; but I need to access them from the controller, to > perform the "form.accepts()" validation tests. > > Is there a reasonable / preferred way to handle a FORM's lifecycle > (validation + handling of the POST request) in the controller, while > keeping its HTML content mostly in the view template? >
