Dan, thanks for replying so quickly. I neglected to note that I'm
forced to use version .96 for this project as it's legacy code shared
by other sites. I copied the safestring module into my utils directory
and it all worked like a charm.
Thanks very much for your help!
On Feb 3, 1:11 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> JimT wrote:
> > I've searched pretty much everywhere and I still can't get my simple
> > template tag working.
>
> > It's supposed to simply return a list of strings which I can output in
> > a template for loop. Currently it takes no parameters but eventually
> > I'd like to pass it a string to format the URL as well however it
> > doesn't seem to be rendering. Here's the tag code:
>
> > import datetime
> > from django.template import Library, Node
>
> > register = Library()
>
> > class DaysListNode(Node):
> > def render(self, context):
> > today = datetime.date.today()
> > days_list = []
> > for i in range(7):
> > day_delta = datetime.timedelta(days=i)
> > the_date = today + day_delta
>
> > # Locale's abbreviated weekday name.
> > day_name = the_date.strftime("%a")
>
> > # Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31]
> > day_num = the_date.strftime("%d").lstrip("0")
>
> > days_list.insert(i, day_name + '<br />' + day_num)
>
> > context['days_list'] = days_list
> > return ''
>
> > def calendar_days(parser, token):
> > return DaysListNode()
>
> > register.tag('calendar_days', calendar_days)
>
> > And here's the way I'm calling it in the template:
>
> > {% load calendar_days %}
> > ... lots of XHTML
>
> > <ul class="date">
> > {% for day in calendar_days.days_list %}
> > <li class="{% if forloop.first %}active{% endif %}"><a href="#">
> > {{ day }}</a></li>
> > {% endfor %}
> > </ul>
>
> > It doesn't seem to work if I put {% for day in calendar_days %} or {%
> > for day in days_list %} either.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated,
>
> > Thanks
>
> You're not calling the template tag anywhere. The way you've written
> it, it inserts a variable called 'days_list' into the context. But you
> actually have to call the tag first:
> {% calendar_days %}
>
> Then you can do
> {% for day in days_list %}
>
> One other point: you're manually escaping the HTML in the tag, for
> some reason, which will actually result in it being escaped *twice*
> when it's rendered. In fact you want to do the opposite - mark the
> output as safe, so it doesn't get escaped and your <br/>s actually get
> rendered as line breaks. You want this:
> from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
> ...
> days_list.insert(i, mark_safe(day_name + '<br />' +
> day_num))
>
> --
> DR.
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