On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:42 AM, Bradley wrote:
> > I'm new to Django and I'm trying to modify an existing django website > for a local newspaper. They would like to have a polls on the their > website. I just used the tutorial from the djangoproject website to > create the polls module. It works fine, except that I need it to work > inside a <div> section on the front page, not multiple pages like is > used in the tutorial. What is the standard procedure for something > like this? > > The tutorial had me create entries for /polls/ in urls.py I probably > don't need those. > Do I somehow Integrate the polls function into already existing > function that are used to display the front page? Not really sure how > to proceed If I'm understanding this correctly, you might want to look at template tags: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#howto-custom-template-tags This would allow you to make calls to the database to retrieve whatever poll and related answers you want, render them as a stand- alone chunk of html, and then insert that html into an existing template. You could put it into the template as: <div id="poll"> {% get_poll_question some_poll %} </div> Where 'some_poll' was a variable that originates in your view. Hope that helps, Eric > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brad > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
