On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:19 -0800, ristretto.rb wrote: > Hello, > > I have a site that we plan to localize for different countries (all > English speaking at this point.) Most of the templates in the site > will localize fine as they are, but a few will need to be changed. I > would like to have one set of templates that is the international > (default) set, and then only create country specific templates when > necessary. > > Django template inheritance is excellent, and where I hope to find a > solution. What I need is a way for my view methods to forward to > generic template names, like 'home.html', 'info.html', etc, which > correspond to the default set of templates, but if any of those > templates have been overridden with a country specific template, (and > the user is using the site from that locale,) that country specific > one, for example 'home_au.html', should be used.
This is one of the lesser-known features of Django and incredibly useful. You can provide a list of template names that are to be tried in order and the first one that is found is loaded. You can pass a list of templates to render_to_response(), since it uses django.template.loader.render_to_string(), which understands a list as the first argument. Alternatively, you can use the django.template.loader.select_loader() call directly to load the template. You'll have to call render() on the template and put it in an HttpResponse object yourself in that case, so normally render_to_response() is going to be more useful. Documentation available at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#the-python-api In your particular case, you'll arrive at the point where you're ready to render the template and will know the language code. So pick a consistent naming scheme and you'll be able to do something like this (assuming 'locale' contains the locale you want to use) at the end of your view function: return render_to_response(['home_%s.html' % locale, 'home.html'], .... ) If the 'home_au.html' template doesn't exist (and, personally, I can't understand any site that doesn't make the Australian version the default!), it will load the 'home.html' version. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
