I would like to change the logo of a website based on which menu is currently activated/seen by the user browsing the website.
For instance I have www.urltowebsite.com/menu1 = Header Logo 1
And then I have www.urltowebsite.com/menu2 = Header Logo 2
And on top of this I want to add an else statement stating that: If any other menu is selected, use header logo 3.
How can I make this possible with Python? I cant seem to wrap my head around what to define where and how to call up the different functions on the HTML website.
Oh and I insist doing this with Python. And preferably without any framework such as Django. But if needs be I can install web.py
EDIT:
Am I forced to go with php then? I would like to once and for all start utilizing Python on my web projects.
The website is made in simple HTML as I said first. The Javascript functions are only used to serve the HTML menu's through AJAX. Again this does not matter much for what I am trying to do, as menu's have classes and I can define those in php and thus change my logo/header.
What I want to do is to use Python in this instance. Here is a code snippet from the site:
<div id="header">
<span class="title"><img src="http://www.url.com/subfolder/images/logo.png"/>
</span>
</div>
And some more relevant to this:
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>001</li>
<li>002</li>
<li>003</li>
<li>004</li>
<li>005</li>
<li>006</li>
<li>007</li>
<li>008</li>
</ul>
</div>
So can I use python here?
You're asking to do the wrong thing the wrong way.
In order to change the logo based on the URL in Python , you need Python to generate the page and know what that url is.
There are two ways to do that in Python:
Use an existing Web Framework
Write your own Web Framework
"Python" doesn't know or care what your URL is - the frameworks and support libraries ( Django, Pyramid, Bottle, Flash, Tornado, Twisted, etc) figure out what the URL is by an integration with an underlying web server ( though some have their own webserver coupled in ). Similarly, PHP doesn't really know or care what the URL is - that information comes from an integration with Apache or FCGI/Nginx/etc. PHP tends to ship with most/all of that integration done. It's also worth noting that PHP is not just a language, but a web framework. Python is just a language.
Most Python frameworks will be written to the WSGI spec and have a "request" object that has all the data you want ( and many use the WebOb librbary for that ).
If you plan on doing everything with static HTML files, then you have a few options:
have a single static directory. use javascript to figure out the addressbar location, and render the corresponding logo / write the headers & footers.
have a "template" directory of all your HTML. use a Python script build a static version of each website with the custom headers/footers and configure your webserver to serve a different one for each domain.
No, Python cannot run inside the HTML web page. If you're really serving plain HTML pages then you must use javascript to execute code in the browser once the page is loaded. However, since you mention using AJAX, it sounds like it's not really true that you're serving plain HTML but rather have some server side code. If so, that server side code is the place to put your HTML-construction logic. To know the best way to do that, you would have to describe what's happening on the server.
Although I haven't used it, I have heard that the pyhp project more or less provides php-like embedded functionality for python.
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I´m new to web dev,
and I was wondering if it´s possible to make a website, that just need to present information of a company (HTML), in just one view.
Like rendering the entire bootstrap in one view.
Yes, you can serve your HTML code through a TemplateView.
So if your entire single page application sits in home.html you could definitely do this. But there is no point in using Django for only that purpose. You would rather want to serve your static HTML page from a classic web server like nginx or apache.
I don't know why would you want to do that.
You can use different html files which will be served as your website templates. You can also extend the files using a simple base.html file. This will help you if you want to open other links when people click on different links on the website.
See this example: https://github.com/singh1114/Djangosite/tree/master/duggal/webportal/templates/webportal.
For using this you have to know more about views and urls.
For making scrollable things, you need to know the concept of ids in HTML.
For example
http://yoursite.com/#your_name will try to find id your_name in the HTML. This way you can create scrollable things.
I have written an application in python to collect data from a javascript form and returned the processed text. It is based entirely off of the code here (but a lot more complex, so I have to use python for this).
https://kooneiform.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/python-and-ajax-for-beginners-with-webpy-and-jquery/
(note to people who like to edit...please leave this link in place since it shows all the relevant code sections in python and javascript).
I need to use this in wordpress (since that's what runs my site) and I honestly have no idea how to pull this off. Webpy can run with Apache CGI, but the documentation (http://webpy.org/cookbook/cgi-apache) is only clear if one wants to navigate directly to the python app as its own page.
I'm hoping someone here has expertise in how to embed this all within a Wordpress page/post?
Thanks!!
As far as I know, there is no native way to run Python code inside a WordPress site just like php. In fact, if you are not doing anything unique to Python, I would suggest you to use php, which supports regular expression and can be used in WordPress by installing the plugin "Insert PHP".
If you really want to use Python, then you need an API endpoint where you connect the function to your website. You would have to look into Azure Function App/AWS lambda on which you write a function app to work as a backend. Then whenever someone request your website, your website would do an HTTP request to that API.
Can you explain what exactly you want to do on your website?
Can I have any highlight kind of things using Python 2.7? Say when my script clicking on the submit button,feeding data into the text field or selecting values from the drop-down field, just to highlight on that element to make sure to the script runner that his/her script doing what he/she wants.
EDIT
I am using selenium-webdriver with python to automate some web based work on a third party application.
Thanks
This is something you need to do with javascript, not python.
[NOTE: I'm leaving this answer for historical purposes but readers should note that the original question has changed from concerning itself with Python to concerning itself with Selenium]
Assuming you're talking about a browser based application being served from a Python back-end server (and it's just a guess since there's no information in your post):
If you are constructing a response in your Python back-end, wrap the stuff that you want to highlight in a <span> tag and set a class on the span tag. Then, in your CSS define that class with whatever highlighting properties you want to use.
However, if you want to accomplish this highlighting in an already-loaded browser page without generating new HTML on the back end and returning that to the browser, then Python (on the server) has no knowledge of or ability to affect the web page in browser. You must accomplish this using Javascript or a Javascript library or framework in the browser.
I'm switching to Pyramid from Apache/PHP/Smarty/Dreamweaver scheme.
I mean the situation of having static site in Apache with menu realized via Dreamweaver template or other static tools. And then if I wanted to put some dynamic content in html I could make the following:
Put smarty templates in html.
Create php behind html with same name. Php takes html as template.
Change links from html to php.
And that was all.
This scheme is convenient because the site is viewable in browser and editable
in Dreamweaver.
How can I reproduce this scheme in Pyramid?
There are separate dirs for templates and static content. Plus all this myapp:static modifiers in hrefs. Where to look up?
Thank you for your advices.
There is no smarty port for Python. So you would have to start using another template syntax, such as mako or chameleon
To do this, you would setup your view_config to respond to the url, end tell it to use the corresponding template.
If you want to do this, you would simple change your code. But this is not necessary, pyramid will process your requests, whether the url contains .html, .php, .python, /, or whatever.
You could still edit the templates in Dreamweaver I guess.
Only really static pages would be linked using static_url. If it is html that you mean to make into a template, it might be easiest to just start of with a template right away, without any dynamic content in it.
This is from the URL dispatch tutorial:
# in views.py
#view_config(route_name='view_page', renderer='templates/view.pt')
def view_page(request):
return {}
# in __init__.py
config.add_route('view_page', 'mypage.html')
You can build a small web application which uses traversal to serve html documents from a directory. Here's more explanations about how traversal works.
Then you can programmatically render those documents as Chameleon templates, using PageTemplateFile for example. This would allow you to include, say, common header/footer/navigation into every page.
This would mean that every page in your site will be in fact dynamic, so that would incur a small performance penalty for every page regardless of whether it has dynamic content or not, but you should not be concerned with this unless you're building the next Facebook. :) However, this approach would allow you to have a plain html document corresponding to every page in your website which you'll be able to edit using Dreamweaver or any other editor.
This is somewhat a different answer than ohters but here is a completely different flow.
Write all your pages in html. Everything!!! and then use something like angularjs or knockoutjs to add dynamic content. Pyramid will serve dynamic content requested using ajax.
You can then map everything to you html templates... edit those templates wherever you want since they are simply html files.
The downside is that making it work altogether isn't that simple at first.
I need to develop a simple login page using Python language with two fields and a button, like:
Username, Password, Login
I know there are some beautiful Python frameworks like
Django, Grok, WebPy, TurboGears
which support web development using Python, but mine is a basic requirement consisting of only 3 screens (pages):
1st page - Login page (Redirects to 2nd page when login button is clicked)
2nd page - Page with records in the form of a list, with an option for adding new records (Redirects to 3rd page when "Add Records" button is clicked)
3rd page - Page with fields, which are saved as records for the list on 2nd page (After entering details and clicking Submit)
So, I have decided to develop the above functionality using Python without using any framework, so that I can have flexibility as well as write my own code.
Is it possible to create a login page using Python without using a framework?
I haven't worked on web services and don't know the basics of web development in Python.
If possible, can you provide me an example on how to create a login page using Python and achieve the functionality described above?
Firstly, it's good to learn how to do things without the frameworks, but if you're doing this for anything but educational purposes it's most likely a mistake to say "my requirements are too simple to bother with frameworks." What you describe is on the simpler end of the spectrum, but already I can see some complications you're probably glossing over.
Anyway, to implement your 3 pages, you will need:
a web server
2 static HTML files
python handlers for GET on 2nd Page, POST from 1st and 3rd Page
storage (either flat file or database)
Look at A Simple Python CGI Server Tutorial to get started, and there are more details at TutorialsPoint: Python - CGI Programming.
Your HTML forms just need to have method="POST" and action set to the URL you're serving from python for each form. Your POST handlers should do what they need to do and then serve a 302 redirect.
If you don't know the basics of python web development, you're going to have your hands full and should probably start with a single user flat-file system. Maybe you can even get away with storing that in memory for now. Then if/when that stops doing it for you, try sqlite. Configuring web servers is a pain, too, so if you can just stick with BaseHTTPServer.
Finally, load your records in another python endpoint, make some HTML for each, slap it in a big string with surrounding HTML, and serve that puppy.
You requirement is very trivial. Though people may suggest micro frameworks like flask, bottle I would say you should try Django and have a look at Django Admin Panel. I think it's possible for you to meet your requirement using the Django admin feature.
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Have a look at this http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html
Without a framework and if you don't want to mess with CGI you can take a look at http://webob.org/ .