It may not be as pretty as a parseable param array, but what about
just having all your args in a single JSON string. Are your template
authors savvy enough?
-Preston
On Jan 20, 3:32 pm, Andrew Ingram <a...@andrewingram.net> wrote:
> I'm building a simple banner/promotion system for a site. Aside from a
> few date-related fields, a banner consists of:
> - an image
> - a target url
> - the image dimensions
> - some tags (using django-tagging)
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to build a template-tag to allow me to
> display a number of banners based on their properties.
>
> i.e
>
> {% get-banners max-width='450' max-height='100' min-height='50'
> match-any='foo, bar' match-all='homepage' limit='2' as banners %}
>
> {% for banner in banners %}
> <a href="{{ banner.redirect_url }}"><img src="{{ banner.image }}"></a>
> {% endfor %}
>
> The only way I can see to do this is to write a hideous parser function,
> made worse by the fact that almost all of the arguments are optional.
> This would take about 5 minutes in Rails (and I don't like Rails), it
> would take about 10 minutes in Tapestry (a Java framework which I
> despise). So I'm hoping there's a nice elegant way of doing this in
> Django because the only approach I can think of is very unappealing.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Ingram
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