Would blocks be too much to ask for?
-Thadeus
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> Perhaps you are talking about something equivalent to Django blocks?
> We do not have that.
> We have other ways to do a similar thing. There are two basic things
> you can do:
>
> 1) Extending
> #extedened.html
> <html><body>{{include}}</body></html>
>
> #extending.html
> {{extends 'extended.html'}}<h1>Hello<h1>
>
> 2) Including
> #including.html
> <html><body>{{include 'body.html'}}</body></html>
>
> #body.html
> <h1>Hello<h1>
>
> And you can mix and match.
> You can also pass functions to the extended function
>
> Extending
> #extedened.html
> <html><body><h1>{{header()}}</h1>{{include}}<h1>{{footer()}}</h1></
> body></html>
>
> #extending.html
> {{def header():}}This is the header{{return}}
> {{def footer():}}This is the footer{{return}}
> {{extends 'extended.html'}}<h1>Hello<h1>
>
> and you can do these things in a try ... except to have a default:
>
> <html><body><h1>{{try: header()}}{{except:}}default{{pass}}</h1>
> {{include}}<h1>{{footer()}}</h1></body></html>
>
> Massimo
>
>
> On Nov 22, 7:18 am, jensmun <j...@acamedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Typical case of embarrassing situation. I don't know anything about
> > programming and wanted to try this out. Unfortunately I can't even get
> > my head around extensions of views. And I can't seem to find a
> > description of something this basic.
> >
> > I've tried stripped the example app in web2py from everything but a
> > default controller, two views and the db-model. But I can't get the
> > extension of views to work. And the Welcome-application is far too
> > complicated for somebody like me to understand.
> >
> > I would be grateful for a pointer to some place which explains view
> > and their extensions. If for example there are two places where I use
> > <h1> how does the extension view know which of these two replace with
> > the <h1> in the extension.
> >
> > Stupid question I know - but I've been trying to create a model and
> > extension view which changes top "Welcome customize me" and not been
> > succeeding.
> >
> > And Massimo's manual assumes a lot of this knowledge already I feel -
> > since the examples moves quickly past how extensions change the parent-
> > node.
> >
> > Grateful for any direction,
> >
> > Jens
> >
>
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