On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:29 PM, luell.m...@gmail.com <luell.m...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > What variable? The search term? > > So your search view gets the query and does the actual search, then > stuffs results and search_term (or something) into the context, and > passes search_term into the template tag? > > Making sure I got it, that does sound better. > > Thanks. > > > > On Mar 7, 4:25 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, luell.m...@gmail.com > > <luell.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What's the best way to include a form in every page, such as a search > > > form in the header? > > > > > You could stuff a blank form in with a context processor, and override > > > that variable in the actual search view so you can fill in the term > > > that searched for. > > > > > Or do people prefer a template tag? Or something else? > > > > > I'm not seeing something that feels truly clean to me so far, probably > > > missing something. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > My strategy would be to make a template tag that was passed the variable > and > > rendered that if there was data, else created and rendered a blank form. > > > > Alex > > > > -- > > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right > to > > say it." --Voltaire > > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero > > > Exactly, and because of the way the Django template system works you can actually always pass the search_form variable to the template tag, even if iit doesn't exist, and then the template tag can just do a bit of logic to create the form. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
