On Oct 13, 9:38 am, raeldc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm a Programmer coming from a Joomla! CMS background ( I develop > Joomla extensions). I took notice of Django when I'm looking for other > alternatives to build mission critical Web Apps, because it's clear to > me that Joomla and PHP will not be enough to do the job. > > I'm now learning Django in depth and I think I can now build a decent > basic website comparable to what I can do with Joomla. However, since > I'm a Django/Python noob, I don't know how to implement some things in > the best Django-pythonic way. > > One of the things I'm wondering about is how to implement mini-content > boxes. It is known to Joomla as modules, in Drupal as blocks, to > others they are called widgets or side bars. In CMS systems, I can > assign a content-box to be viewable on different pages or all pages > with simple point and click. In Django, I think I would have to call > the VIEW for those content boxes in every VIEW where I want them > displayed. This method looks very redundant to me. Or maybe I'm still > in the stage of my learning where I haven't found the Django way that > deals with this. So I'm asking the experts on Django for guidance. How > do I implement easily manageable min-content boxes on my Django > website? Is there a Django standard way? If none, can you please > suggest what you think is the best way to do this? > > Thank you!
The best way to do this is via custom template tags, which are basically just bits of code that you can insert in any template. They're in the documentation here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/ - read the whole thing, but you want an 'inclusion tag' which is a shortcut to render a template snippet with its own context. James Bennett has a great how-to on this (it's slightly out of date as it doesn't mention the shortcuts, but the gist of it is still valid): http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/07/django-tips-write-better-template-tags/ And I disagree with Olivier that this is verbose and cumbersome: you can write this sort of thing in about three lines if you use the decorators. -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
