Hello Again Guys! With your guidance, I was able to get a pretty good idea on how to put mini-content boxes on my website.
However, one thing I realized (with my still limited understanding of Django), is that templatetags are actually coupled with apps. To create templatetags, I must make it as a templatetags module inside my apps. It doesn't look "loosely coupled" to me if I want to reuse the same templatetag on different apps. For example, the tip Daniel gave me at http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/07/django-tips-write-better-template-tags/ teaches how to create a "get_latest" tag which can be configured by passing arguments to it from the template. But the "get_latest" tag would only be coupled with the app where I created it. Even though it can use different models from different apps. To use it on a different app, I must rewrite the same templatetag module in another app. This doesn't look DRY to me. So I think my idea on creating mini-content boxes is wrong because my way is not DRY and Loosely Coupled. I hope you can enlighten me on this one. Thank you! On Oct 13, 11:02 pm, bruno desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13 oct, 10:38, raeldc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snip) > > > One of the things I'm wondering about is how to implementmini-content > > boxes. It is known to Joomla as modules, in Drupal as blocks, to > > others they are called widgets or side bars. In CMS systems, I can > > assign acontent-box to be viewable on different pages or all pages > > with simple point and click. In Django, I think I would have to call > > the VIEW for thosecontentboxes in every VIEW where I want them > > displayed. This method looks very redundant to me. Or maybe I'm still > > in the stage of my learning where I haven't found the Django way that > > deals with this. So I'm asking the experts on Django for guidance. How > > do I implement easily manageable min-contentboxes on my Django > > website? Is there a Django standard way? If none, can you please > > suggest what you think is the best way to do this? > > There are/have been a couple efforts in this direction already. One of > them seems to be abandonned by it's author, but could be reused as a > basis for what you're after:http://code.google.com/p/django-modular/ > > The other one seems much more alive, but barely documented at > all:http://code.google.com/p/django-app-plugins/ > > HTH --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
