Thanks for your feedback. It is exactly the way you suggest. I did not think through what I had done myself (referring to "app_name/*.html" in my views and templates) before posting.
Per-Olof On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 1:50:17 AM UTC+1, Amirouche wrote: > > Héllo Per-Olof, > > On Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:17:14 PM UTC+1, Per-Olof Åstrand wrote: >> >> I had a problem interpreting the documentation of app_directories.Loader >> in >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loading-templates(I >> use the dev version of Django). As I read the documentation, I should >> put the templates for an app in >> >> app_name/templates/*.html >>> >> >> > Yes, it should work if you reference the template *without* the app_name > for instance > > {% extends "base.html" %} > {% include "footer.html" %} > > or in python with «render(request, "base.html", ctx)» but you never render > the base html or footer directly so this is dummy example > > >> whereas to get it to work, I had to put them in >> >> app_name/templates/app_name/*.html >>> >> > > it only works if you reference the app_name when you call the template for > instance «render(request, "app_name/index.html", ctx)» same for include and > extends. > > It's a convention to avoid clash between templates names, it a way to > namespace templates, otherwise you would need to namespace the names of the > templates like: «app_name_index.html» which is not nice... > > >> It also seems like it looks for templates in (which I could see from the >> error message when failing with the first approach) >> >> app_name1/templates/app_name2/*.html >> >> >> I can see the power of that when having a hierarchy of apps. Am I missing >> something here? >> >> Per-Olof >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/uKY3IySZbxsJ. 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.
