Alice wrote:
> thanks :)
>
> did anything ever come of it?
>
> I agree that if a clean implementation cannot be done, it shouldn't.
> There was another interesting idea that a block could be referenced as
> a variable
>
> {% block content %}
> {% endblock %}
>
> {{ content }}
>
> or perhaps
>
> {{ __content__ }}
>
> any feedback on this?
>
>
> Alice
>
>
Anything which you want to be able to include in multiple places and
contains logic is best done as a template tag. A good way to do your
particular task may be to use the @inclusion_tag decorator in ticket
#625 ( see below), but you can also do it the long way as in
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/
Under the section 'Writing custom template tags' .
So to do it using the inclusion_tag decorator, assuming a few random
things to make it interesting:
in your templatetags module:
from django.core.template_decorators import inclusion_tag
@inclusion_tag('my_app/menu')
def main_menu(user):
return {
'items' : get_standard_items() + get_items_for_user(user)
}
in the template 'my_app/menu':
<ul class="menu">
{for item in items}
<li>{{item}}</li>
{endfor}
</ul>
to use it:
{% load mytemplates %}
{% main_menu user %}
where user is a variable holding your user object.
If you don't have any logic in there, maybe the include tag in #598
would be a good fit.
{% include "my_app/menu" %}
Robert
