you might want to check out hugo's dbtemplate  loader (which I  
updated to work with the current trunk)
http://svn.zyons.python-hosting.com/trunk/zilbo/common/dbloader/

that way you can store the templates themselves in a database, which  
might make life a bit more easier.

regards
Ian

On 22/08/2006, at 3:21 PM, Bryan Chow wrote:

>
> Hi Sean,
>
> No worries, glad to hear that you find TemplatePages useful :)
>
> To answer your question, you can write a custom inclusion tag to
> insert snippets of dynamic content into your templates.
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/ 
> #inclusion-tags
>
> Alternately, you could use a custom template processor to make
> variables available to your templates, and handle the rendering in the
> templates instead.
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/ 
> #subclassing-context-requestcontext
> http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/06/14/django-tips-template- 
> context-processors
>
> Check out the SiteRoot context processor in verdjnlib for a working
> example of a custom context processor.
> http://www.verdjn.com/wiki/Siteroot
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
>
> On 8/21/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> I also owe you a big thanks :-)
>>
>> I hope Adrian and friends will consider rolling this or something
>> like it into the django core. We really need a nice clean way to
>> serve up static files within the context of a django website.
>>
>> If you consider that people me tend to build out the static site
>> first, then add the dynamic bits later, it only makes sense to build
>> in functionality for static pages.
>>
>> One quick question:
>>
>> What if I have a bunch of static pages but they all include a bit of
>> dynamic content in the sidebar (pulled from the database)? How can I
>> include that without writing a view method for every page?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
>

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