Thank you for the response. I don't believe I explained well enough exactly what I'm trying to do.
I have table Video with a field vimeo_code. Each vimeo_code has its own XML file. The XML file I used in my views.py is just a random video I saw on vimeo. I need to replace the vimeo_code so the XML file I'm parsing looks like http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/vimeo_code.xml Would it be a better idea to do this as a tag filter? Any additional information for me if I do it that way? Thanks again, I appreciate your help. Matt On Dec 5, 10:07 pm, Sam Lai <samuel....@gmail.com> wrote: > See inline. > > 2009/12/6 sleepjunk <sleepj...@gmail.com>: > > > Hello :) I am working on a small video site that allows a user to add > > a video to the site by submitting a Vimeo.com or Youtube.com URL. I'm > > trying to display thumbnails without hosting them. For Vimeo videos I > > need to parse an XML file to find the thumbnail location. > > > On my homepage I would like to display the 5 newest videos. As of now > > I'm displaying every video in the database on the homepage. Each video > > will have a different thumbnail and XML file to parse. As of right now > > my "main_page" in my views.py file looks like this: > > > def home_page(request): > > template = get_template('home_page.html') > > videos = Video.objects.all() > > videos_context = [ ] > for v in videos:> feed = > urllib.urlopen("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/7875440.xml";) > > tree = ET.parse(feed) > > root = tree.getroot() > > vimeo_thumbnail = root.findtext("video/thumbnail_medium") > > videos_context.append( { 'video' : v, 'thumbnail_url' : > vimeo_thumbnail } ) > > > variables = Context({ > > 'videos' : videos_context, > > }) > > output = template.render(variables) > > return HttpResponse(output) > > > How can I parse a different XML file for every video? Thank you much. > > Again, I am new and could be going about this completely wrong and > > gladly accept any feedback you have. > > You could try something like the modified view above. It loops through > every video, gets the thumbnail URL, creates an object containing the > video model instance and the thumbnail URL, and adds it to the list > videos_context. > > You could then access them in your template like this (assuming > there's a name field in your Video model): > > {% for v in videos %} > <img src="{{v.thumbnail_url}}">{{ v.video.name }} > {% endfor %} > > The alternate way of doing this is to make a tag filter, > seehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/ > > HTH, > > Sam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
