On 16 oct, 12:34, raeldc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Again Guys! > > With your guidance, I was able to get a pretty good idea on how to put > mini-content boxes on my website. > > However, one thing I realized (with my still limited understanding of > Django), is that templatetags are actually coupled with apps. To > create templatetags, I must make it as a templatetags module inside my > apps. It doesn't look "loosely coupled" to me if I want to reuse the > same templatetag on different apps.
It's just like for any function/class/whatever you want to make reusable in different contexts : put it in a separate package / module / app. Since indeed Django requires templatetags to live in a "django application" - that is, a python package with a more or less defined layout -, then the solution is obvious: - start a new 'mycustomtags' app - move your templatetags to this app - put that app somewhere in your PYTHONPATH (apps don't have to live in your project, cf django.contrib.XXX apps) - and of course mention that app in your project settings.INSTALLED_APPS Note that just any 'component' of a django app is optional. IOW, you don't have to have models AND views AND urls AND whatnot - just put what makes sense. In your case, your mycustomtemplatetags app layout would only contain the mandatory[1] top-level __init__.py, the templatetags directory - with it's own mandatory __init__.py -, and your templatetags file(s). FWIW, that's just what the template_utils app do: http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/ 1] mandatory to make Python consider this directory as a Python package. HTH --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
