Greetings!
I've been spending the past few weeks learning django and love it! I'm
running into a snag though...
I'm using just one template for all my toying right now, and it has a few
sections in it that looks something like this:
{% if user.username %}
<center><h3>Welcome {{ user.username }}!</h3></center>
{% else %}
<center>
<h3>Welcome anonymous user!</h3>
<h2>Please /login/ login </h2>
</center>
{% endif %}
-- and --
{% for link in link_list %}
{{ link.href }} {{ link.name }}
{% if not forloop.last %}
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{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
I have around a dozen views, and I'm noticing that in each of my views I'm
having to do something like:
return render_to_response('base.html', { #various logic
'link_list': link_list,
'user': request.user })
I have link_list defined in another file, so each function can handle that
properly. The problem creeps up on the 'user': request.user logic though.
Instead of having to have this line of code in EVERY return statement, I'd
rather just define it once in a dictionary at the top of my views.py page or
in another file, with something like this:
dictionary_of_variables = {'user': request.user, 'link_list': link_list,
#various other global things}
I'd also like to just return something like this in each of my functions:
business_logic_variable = "some business logic"
dictionary_of_variables['template_variable'] = business_logic_variable
return render_to_response('base.html', dictionary_of_variables)
HOWEVER: I can't do that because request.user is out of the scope of a
'request' that you would typically pass to a view function. My specific
error is:
name 'request' is not defined
Is there a workaround for this sort of logic? I don't mind returning it in
my 10 or so functions that I have right now, but when my webpage grows to
hundreds of functions & pages, it would be much better to globally define
this variable.
Thanks for your reply!
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