Question

I’m trying to populate a drop down navigation bar from a web2py database of product names. The table is defined in db.py like so:

db.define_table('product',
Field('prodid', unique=True),
Field('name'),
Field('stock', 'integer'))

I’ve done a bit of research and found heaps of ways to do it with PHP from an SQL database but I haven’t been able to find anything about retrieving from a local database in web2py.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this:

{{ rows = db().select(db.product.ALL) }}
{{if len(rows):}}
<ul>
{{ for r in rows: }}
  <li>
    <a href="yourlink/{{=r.id}}">
        {{=r.name}}
    </a>
  </li>
{{pass}}
</ul>
{{pass}}