Alex,
It's a Tag, so will give the filter route a go - shouldn't take too
much to swap it over.. at the moment this is the only place I'm using
the tag/filter..
Guy
On Aug 16, 1:37 pm, Alexander Dutton <d...@alexdutton.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/08/09 09:50, GuyBowden wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > Just wondering what the best way to do this sort of thing is:
>
> > {% with last_tweet_sent this_user as sent_at %}
> > {{ sent_at|naturalday:_("MONTH_DAY_FORMAT")|capfirst}}
> > {% endwith %}
>
> > I've got a function "last_tweet_sent" in a templatetags module that
> > takes a user and spits back the last time they sent a tweet.
>
> > I'd like to keep the formatting of the date in the template rather
> > than in the templatetag module (best practice?)
>
> > But I can't use the with statement to put the result of my function
> > call in a variable - I guess because of the spacing there for calling
> > the function with an argument.
>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Guy
>
> Just to clarify, is your last_tweet_sent a template tag or a template
> filter? In the first instance you won't be able to do what you want, and
> it's probably overkill. In the second instance you should be able to do:
>
> > {% with this_user|last_tweet_sent as sent_at %}
> > {{ sent_at|naturalday:_("MONTH_DAY_FORMAT")|capfirst}}
> > {% endwith %}
>
> The template fitler definition would look something like this:>
> @register.filter(name='last_tweet_sent')
> > def last_tweet_sent(user):
> > # work out when it was and call it dt
> > return dt
>
> The alternative is to make it a method on the user object, but that requires
> a bit more fu in replacing the User model with a custom one. From what I
> remember, [1] is the place that tells you how to do it. Again, this method is
> probably overkill ;-).
>
> Alex
>
> [1]http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/06/django-tips-extending-user-m...
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