On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, compbry15 <compbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all, > > I am working on a website in which we want the same footer to display > on all pages. This normally wouldn't be a problem with django, in > fact it would be really easy. The catch here is that we want certain > objects to be available on this footer. So no matter what page you > were on, if you went down to the footer it would show like the 3 > latest blog posts, latest picture, etc etc. > > So far I have the footer code in the base.html template, and have > abstracted out a helper function that gets all the necessary records > and puts them in a dictionary to be passed into a template. The > display works fine for pages that I have manually changed the views to > call the helper function and pass in the necessary dictionary values, > but i'll have to do this for all pages... And that just seems wrong. > > I am having trouble finding a proper way to phrase this question for > searching the django docs and google, so was wondering if anyone had > any ideas for doing this in a DRY sort of fashion. > > Thanks! > > > The best way to solve this would either be a template inclusion tag, or a template context processor. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
