Thanks niphold and thanks for pointing out the missing () Simon
On 20 August 2012 21:32, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > take a look in the book > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/7#Hidden-fields. > > If you have a page where the post is shown and the comments are "at the > bottom" (so you have the post_id somewhere in the controller or in the > request.args or vars) you can still do something like > > db.comments.post_id.default = post_id > db.comments.post_id.readable = db.comments.post_id.writable = False > > form = SQLFORM(db.comments) > .... > > > > PS: mind the IS_NOT_EMPTY without () for "title" in "comments". > > > On Monday, August 20, 2012 10:23:47 PM UTC+2, Simon Carr wrote: >> >> I am still writing my learning application a Blog. I have now created a >> function in my controller to produce a form for users to leave comments for >> a post. >> >> How do I add a hidden field to the comment form with the post_id? here is >> my database defs if it helps. >> >> >> db.define_table( >> 'post', >> Field('author',db.auth_user), >> Field('date_created','**datetime',default=request.now)**, >> Field('title',requires=IS_NOT_**EMPTY()), >> Field('body','text',requires=**IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >> format='%(title)s') >> >> db.define_table( >> 'comments', >> Field('post_id',db.post), >> Field('author',db.auth_user), >> Field('date_created','**datetime',default=request.now)**, >> Field('title',requires=IS_NOT_**EMPTY), >> Field('comment','text',**requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >> format='%(title)s') >> >> >> >> Thanks >> Simon >> > -- > > > > --
