OK Thanks for that. I have worked out that the context_processors
route is best for this one but the template_tags is ideal for another
part I was working on.
Thanks for the help.
Regards Pete
On Jun 25, 9:29 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Pete-Sitedesign <
>
>
>
> peter.king.sitedes...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 25, 9:22 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Pete-Sitedesign <
>
> > > peter.king.sitedes...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I want to build a site which has latest news on the side of all the
> > > > pages, I wanted to build the pages using simple templates (static
> > > > content) and then reference them using the direct_to_template in the
> > > > urls file.
>
> > > > Since each template extends base how can I get base to contain the
> > > > latest news or do I have to write a view for each template and pass
> > > > the news into them?
>
> > > > Sorry for the newbie question.
>
> > > There are 2 ways to do this, either a) a template context process, which
> > > bsaically adds something to the context of all templates rendered, or b)
> > an
> > > inclusion tag which basically let's you do an include but with a new
> > context
> > > that you can create dynamically.
>
> > > 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
>
> > Thanks for that. I was have just been playing with the
> > context_processors way which is great since it provides the data to
> > all templates.
> > Could you explain the include idea a bit further please.
> > Do you mean {% include some_other_template.html %} then how do I
> > handle the URL to trigger a view to populate that included template
> > with the content?
>
> > PS Thanks for the reply.
>
> > regards Pete
>
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#incl...
> the docs on inclusion tags, they explain it better than I could :)
>
> 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
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