> Second, it is obviously and woefully inefficient to do this for
> several blocks on the page. I may have 5 or more, and I may want to
> add some in the future. Is this the place for a custom templatetag?
> Has someone already put something like this together?
I haven't done exactly this, but I've done something similar, and can
maybe help with some general principles.
It's not clear exactly what's going into these pods, but it's usually
a bad idea to have things like 'style' or 'placement' in the database
tables: that's presentational logic, not data. I would suggest either
{% include %}-ing smaller template snippets, or using custom template
tags. If the snippet/tag can get all its information from the existing
context, use an include; if it needs its own database queries/extended
python, use a tag.
Still kind of shooting in the dark: information such as how the pods
are to be displayed should probably come in through the view. Maybe
via a GET query, maybe via saved user settings. You could create a
dictionary in the view, where say the keys were snippet/tag names, and
the values a list of style/presentation parameters that were passed to
each appropriate snippet. Something like that. Then your template is
simply a matter of checking if the dict has certain keys, and then
using the dict values to populate CSS style attributes, or to set
variables telling a template tag which queries to perform (actually
that last might not work, can't remember...).
As always, B-List has the goods:
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/07/django-tips-write-better-template-tags/
Hope something in there helps,
Eric
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