On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM, nicolas HERSOG <n.her...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi ! >> >> It's very strange, i just found a way to solve my probleme but i don't have >> 'django.core.context_processors.request' in my TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. >> >> For solve my problem i added in my views.py : >> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response >> >> this is my previous index views who didn t work : >> >> def index(request): >> videos = Video.objects.all() >> t = loader.get_template('myFront/index.html') >> c = Context({ >> 'datas': datas, >> }) >> return HttpResponse(t.render(c)) >> >> and this is the solving one : >> def index(request): >> videos = Video.objects.all() >> t = loader.get_template('myFront/index.html') >> c = Context({ >> 'datas': datas, >> }) >> >> return render_to_response('empireFront/index.html', c, >> context_instance=RequestContext(request)) >> >> Is a a correct way to do in Django ? >> >> I'ill try your solution too, >> >> Thx :) >> > > Programming by permutation is never a good strategy. > render_to_response() takes 4 arguments[1] > > render_to_response(template_name[, dictionary][, context_instance][, > mimetype]) > > In your 'working but no idea why' example, you are providing a Context > as the dictionary, which works as contexts are dict-like in their > nature, and a RequestContext (with no values) as the context. The > contents of the supplied dictionary are merged* into the context. > > A typical view using RequestContext and render_to_response should look > like this: > > def someview(request): > ctxt = RequestContext({ > 'hello': 'world', > }) > return render_to_response('sometemplate.html', context_instance=ctxt)
I did this from memory, and omitted the very important first argument to RequestContext (doh!). It should look like this: def someview(request): ctxt = RequestContext(request, { 'hello': 'world', }) return render_to_response('sometemplate.html', context_instance=ctxt) Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.