On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Jason <1jason.whatf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I love the concept of DRY, and django's enthusiasm for this concept. In
> light of this I have tried to have a template extend a template, but it
> doesn't seem to work. Is there a better way than what I'm currently doing?
>
> The current way
>
> index.html
>
> {% if current_user %}
> {% extends "_logged_out_template.html" %}
>
> {% else %}
> {% extends "_logged_in_template.html" %}
> {% endif %}
>
> contact.html
>
> {% if current_user %}
>
> {% extends "_logged_out_template.html" %}
>
> {% else %}
>
> {% extends "_logged_in_template.html" %}
>
> {% endif %}
>
>
>
> The way I would like it to be (but it didn't work)
>
> index.html
> {% extends "_base_template.html" %}
>
> _base_script.html
>
> {% if current_user %}
>
> {% extends "_logged_out_template.html" %}
>
> {% else %}
>
> {% extends "_logged_in_template.html" %}
>
> {% endif %}
>
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Honestly, I never even realized that you *could* put an {% extends %} node
inside of an {% if %} node like that.
What I find works, if you really do have to dynamically change the base
template that you are inheriting from, is to set a context variable in your
view, and use it in the template. Nobody ever said that the argument to
'extends' has to be a literal string:
View:
def my_view(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated:
base_template = "_logged_in_template.html"
else:
base_template = "_logged_out_template.html"
...
return render("my_template.html", RequestContext({"base_template":
base_template...}))
Template: (my_template.html)
{% extends base_template %}
(In a real app, I would use a base class for the view which would set the
base template for every request automatically, or I would do it in a
context processor, rather than putting those four lines at the top of every
single view)
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Regards,
Ian Clelland
<clell...@gmail.com>
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