On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Andres Lucena <andresluc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my base.html I'm trying to do this:
>
>        <title>{% block title %}{{title|default:"{{SITE_NAME}}"}}{%
> endblock %}</title>
>
> But I'm getting this:
>
> TemplateSyntaxError at /
> default requires 1 arguments, 0 provided
>
> So, SITE_NAME is not passed to the filter.
>
> As a workaround I did this:
>
>        <title>{% block title %}{% if not title %}{{SITE_NAME}}{% else
> %}{{title}}{% endif %}{% endblock %}</title>
>
> But it's pretty ugly... Is there anyway to passing a variable to a
> template filter??
>
> Thanks,
> Andres
>

Yes, and you will kick yourself:

{{ title|default:SITE_NAME }}

It is a template variable. Inside tags, template variables are
unquoted and "values are quoted".

Cheers

Tom

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