On Sunday, 29 January 2012 05:34:50 UTC, Mike wrote:
>
> In a project I'm working on I have a status bar at the top of the webpage
> that will render data using template tags. The status bar will be
> displayed on all of my views, so I want to put the html code in my base
> template. The base template is imported to all of templates using the
> 'extends' template tag. Now the base template needs a dictionary of data.
> My question is, how do I pass this data to the base template? I'm passing
> it in the context data of every view that renders a template, but it seems
> like there should be a better way - for example the base template calling
> out to a python function that can add data to the context before its
> rendered. Is there any other way to pass data to a base template?
>
>
> This is exactly what context processors are for:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext
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