On Mar 2, 10:41 am, Mattias <lin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just learning Django, and had a question with my first site. > > To have a common layout for multiple pages (even those in different > applications / python code folders) on the site, I'm using template > inheritance. > But the base template uses a few variables, for example the name of > the logged in user and some of his settings. These need to be provided > as parameters from *every* view's render_to_response call that uses a > template inheriting from base. > > How should I structure my code to access these in every view? > An idea I had was to: > * make a basehelper.py to go with the base.html template > * have a get_params(request) function there that returns a dict with > the base template parameters > * every view would use this and add its own values before passing it > to render_to_response. > > But is there something more generic for this problem in Django? > > Mattias
This is what context processors are for - they insert variables into the template context. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#id1 As well as enabling them as described above, if you're using render_to_response you need to be sure to add the context_instance=RequestContext(request) parameter to the call. -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
