On 15 juil, 20:14, Suprnaturall <n.her...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if like in play or symfony you can develop special
> method for each class/table in the models.py and use them in your
> template.
Of course. A model is "just" a Python class (well, with some "magic"
but...).
> I'm trying few things but it didn't work.
>
> For exemple this is my models.py :
> class Category(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length=250)
>
> def get_short_name():
> return name[0,20]
>
> And here my html :
> <div class="name">Desc : {{ category.get_short_name }} </div>
>
> But it don t work, i'v got nothing in the screen.
Set DEBUG and DEBUG_TEMPLATE to True in your settings.py. You should
get a nice traceback.
>
> What the correct way to do stuff like this, i m supposed to make a
> custom tag in order to truncuate the name field ?
Of course not. But you'd better take some time learning Python if you
hope to do anything with Django.
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