Ok thats great, thanks a lot tzury and justin.
-R
On 9/27/07, Justin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> web.render used to call a templating engine called Cheetah. As
> webpy's own templating system became more mature, support for Cheetah
> was dropped, but since many people had legacy code using Cheetah, the
> function was left in.
>
> If you just want to display static html, you probably don't want to
> use a framework at all...you want Apache :-)
>
> If you're just trying to play with web.py and want to output some
> static html code, you should probably just use the template system as
> described by Tzury and instead of writing a template, use plain html
> (plain html will still render correctly). Using templates is the
> preferred way to eventually generate dynamic content, so getting it
> set up now will be a good investment in your time...
>
> So, to recap what Tzury said...call in your webpy code:
>
> render = web.template.render('templates/')
>
> create a subdirectory called "templates", and put an html file in
> there (say "index.html")
>
> then, in your webpy code, do something like this:
>
> def GET(self):
> print render.index()
>
> and this will return your index.html file.
>
> Hope this helps you get started.
> -Justin
>
>
> On Sep 26, 11:30 am, "Ranganath s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > HI Tzury
> >
> > Thanks a lot, In couple of articles there is this method called
> web.render("
> > index.html") mentioned to render the existing html page. i was trying
> > initially that instead of templates. So now has it been removed, if so
> whts
> > the simple way to render the existing html page without using templates.
> >
> > Thankk you
> > Ranganath.S
> >
> > On 9/25/07, Tzury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > web.render('index.html') it gives error as render not found in
> > > > module. I have downloaded webpy0.22 and working on python2.5 . Is
> > > > that method obsolete or removed ? plz let me know at the earliest
> >
> > > At first you should define your render object initialized with
> > > templates directory
> >
> > > e.g.
> > > render = web.template.render('templates/')
> >
> > > Once you did so, you can call render.<template_file>
> > > e.g.
> > > for 'index.html' you call render.index()
> >
> > > Moreover, if you have menu.html, header.html, footer.html which you
> > > want them to appear at all pages you may do the following:
> >
> > > render.index(render.menu(), render.header())
> > > and your index may look like:
> > > $def with (menu, header, form, ....)
> > > <html>
> > > < blah> </blah>
> > > <body>
> > > $:header
> > > $:menu
> > > <form>
> > > $:form.render()
> > > </form>
> > > </body>
> >
> > --
> > I blog athttp://iparams.com/blog
>
>
> >
>
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