User:Kim/Stations, Skills, Resources/Flask: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:09, 13 April 2026

objective: website with textarea saves input to txt file and publishes entries on the page

objective: submit multiple inputs, store and retrieve them from json

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 ''objective: submit multiple inputs, store and retrieve them from json''
 <syntaxhighlight lang="python">
-from flask import Flask, render_template, request
-app = Flask(__name__)
-# define route
-# when the route is being accessed, run function main with get and post request
-@app.route("/", methods=["GET", "POST"])
-# function main gets form input and renders a template (render and request are methods imported from flask)
-def main():
-    # is request is post
-    if request.method == "POST":
-        # request the form (in the html template)
-        observation = request.form["observation"]
-        # append the form input to observations
-        observations.append(observation)
-        # append observation to txt file
-        # make txt file
-        with open("database.txt", "a") as database:
-            # we are only wiriting on post requests
-            database.write("\n"+ observation)
-    # reading is for opening the app, when we dont write first (code is not entirely running linearly)
-    database = open("database.txt", "r").readlines()
-    # output to database.txt:
-    return render_template("observations.html", database=database)
 </syntaxhighlight>