On May 21, 2008, at 6:58 PM, sebey wrote:
>
> I know css does not not have any variables but I was thinking that
> python/django could look though the css file and have
> background-color:{{insert python varible here}}
>
> but I did consider that first about copy and pasting a style sheet and
> just change the background but I never thought about inheritance so
> thank you
Why don't you just use an inline <style> section in the your
template's head section, and set the CSS there?
>
>
> but please doe anyone no about import rss feeds form other sites and
> grabing about the feed them manipulate the tags to mark them up and
> css them
Use Feedparser (http://www.feedparser.org/) in a stand-alone script,
run by a cron job, that checks feeds for updates a few times per day.
Have a django model that represents rss feeds and feed items, and then
import the necessary stuff at the top of your feed parser script so
that you can save new feed items to the database as they come in. Once
the feed items are in your database, you can use them as normal in the
rest of your django app.
Yrs,
Eric
>
>
> On May 21, 1:33 am, Simon Tite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm afraid I don't quite understand all of your question, but I can
>> possibly answer part of it, although please bear in mind I'm quite
>> new
>> at Django, so there may be better ways of doing it.
>>
>> On May 19, 11:50 am, sebey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am thinking about making a template that has the sturcture and and
>>> have a css template with the background color as a variable is this
>>> possible basically all the shows come form this template and css
>>> file
>>
>> As far as I know, CSS files can't have variables or constants defined
>> within them. To have different colour backgrounds, my first approach
>> would be simply to have different CSS files, e.g. base_red.css,
>> base_green.css, etc. This is an approach I am currently using in a
>> development I am doing, however, the drawback is obviously going to
>> be
>> the ongoing maintenance of two or more CSS files which need to be
>> identical apart from one or two lines defining the colour. Probably
>> not a tremendous problem if it is ONLY the background colour which
>> needs to change... The applicable CSS file to be used can be defined
>> using the template system: in my base.html (which defines to overall
>> structure of all subordinate pages) I have the following line:
>>
>> (in the <head>.....</head> block): <link rel="stylesheet"
>> href="../
>> stylesheets/{{style}}.css" type="text/css">
>>
>> The variable {{ style }} can be defined in the URL, or maybe in the
>> GET data (eg www.<somesite>.com/?style=red), or anywhere you like.
>>
>> This worked fine for me, because I am using it to define more than
>> just the background colour, but also to radically change the layout
>> of
>> the page, such as fonts, borders, graphics, element positioning etc.
>>
>> However the next stage might be, to have more than one stylesheet for
>> the page... I think this would work fine for just background colour
>> changes, for example:
>>
>> Style sheet red.css:
>> body {background-color: #FF0000;}
>>
>> Style sheet green.css:
>> body {background-color: #00FF00;}
>>
>> Style sheet base.css:
>> All the other stuff!
>>
>> base.html:
>> <head>
>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../stylesheets/{{style}}.css"
>> type="text/css">
>> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../stylesheets/base.css" type="text/
>> css">
>> </head>
>>
>> I haven't tried this yet, but I think it would work.
>>
>> The third thought to occur to me was to use JavaScript (or something)
>> to directly modify the DOM model, however at this stage the learning
>> curve seem too scary to me, however it might actually be the best way
>> in the end, if the variations in styles become too complex.
>>
>>> not to mention can you load a template with in a template like have
>>> the homepages with templates inside them?
>>
>> Well, yes I think so... I'm not sure why you think that would not be
>> possible, have you had a problem with it, or am I misunderstanding
>> your question?
> >
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