Re: help passing data from view to template

[Colleen Owens]

Okay, yeah this was a dumb question, foolishly asked before I got through part 4 of the tutorial. I see now that calling get_link_list from within my template will do what I need. I didn't realize that get_link_list would preserve ordering.

On 12/21/05, Colleen Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm a Django newbie. This follows up on a question I asked before and a very helpful answer to on this list.

So I have a list of dates and for each date I have a list of link objects I want to display. I'm trying to figure out how to best pass this data from my view to the template.

I tried this and several variations on this, but I'm not properly accessing the variable keys that I'm passing into my Context object. I guess what I really don't understand is what can be passed into the template and how it's accessed. All the examples I could find just pass in very simple lists.

def index(request):
    date_list = newslists.get_list(order_by=["-date"])
    args = {'date_list': date_list}
    for date in date_list:
        dateids = date.get_link_order()
        datelinks = []
        for id in dateids:
            datelinks.append(links.get_object(id__exact = id))
        args[] = datelinks
    t = loader.get_template('news/index')
    c = Context(args)
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

(nevermind that even if this worked, the list wouldn't be very pretty)
<ul>
{% for date in date_list %}
    <li>{{ date }}</li>
    {% for link in date %}
        <li>{{ link.title }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
</ul>

Thanks for your help!

Colleen