What you're looking for is explained in the documentation on writing your own template tags: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/
Specifically, I'd look into inclusion tags: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#inclusion-tags -Jeff On Jan 20, 1:49 pm, pistacchio <pistacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi to all! I'm a long time python developer. For my web application > needs I've been relying on PHP, but I'm trying to switch to Django. > I'm in the learning phase. > > A thing that is puzzling me is how to compose various apps like a > puzzle with "main" pages. An example. Suppose that I have a home page > with some recent news, a column with the latest posts from the forum, > an ajax chat and a login / register form. What I see is a main, parent > application (the homepage itself) made of little templates exposed by > other applications (forum, news, chat, userAdmin). > > In PHP and my template system of choice (tinybutstrong) i can call a > template from a "view" (a script) and work on a template level. > Withing this main/index homepage i can embed tags calling other > templates (latest from the forum, last 5 news etc). Those subtemplates > can not only be static pages (or subtemplates recursively containing > other sub templates) but can also be calls to scripts, so that i can > effectively embed into a page the output of a script. > > What is the best way in Django to assemble bits of dinamic > subtemplates into a main template? I suspect that the Django way is > gathering data from the various apps and yell it to the template via a > main view. Is there a way to work template-level? It think it is more > convenient to design a page *requesting* data, also because a change > only requires adding / deleting some rows in a template, while working > on a view-level requires changin the view (and its includes) *and* the > template. > > Any help from you Django experts? > Thanks in advance, > Gustavo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
