how to pass user input into url

[Ntogg]

I want to show the user their home address on the google map api that i am using. When the user inputs their address and clicks "submit", I want the google map api to pinpoint their address which I am trying to do by passing the user input into the iframe url of the google maps api. Any idea how I can do that with web2py? (I am very new to Python and web2py)

[Dave S]

On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 8:43:54 AM UTC-8, Ntogg wrote:

I want to show the user their home address on the google map api that i am using. When the user inputs their address and clicks "submit", I want the google map api to pinpoint their address which I am trying to do by passing the user input into the iframe url of the google maps api. Any idea how I can do that with web2py? (I am very new to Python and web2py)

Sorry this got overlooked.  In case you're still wondering, I can mention that the user input can be obtained in various ways, SQLFORM() being one of the easiest. and your controller function would look at request.post_vars.  Assuming the Google Maps API uses values passed in the URL, you would just append the values to the base url.  Something like

# assume the address 123 xyz street,Hollywood,California comes from a form with 4 inputsaddr_sgtr
addr_str = request.post_vars.housenum + " " + request.post_vars.street + "," + request.post_vars.city + "," + request.post_vars.state
IFRAME(_src='http://www.google.com/maps/api?address=' + addr_str)

(not tested ... I haven't worked with Google APIs, although I saw a demo where GM was used to get the 10 closest Starbucks locations)

/dps

[Ntogg]

thanks