Hi, I clarified the subject.

I propose to pass the selected month in the blog archives as an integer to 
the template to solve the mentioned problem and will commit a pull request 
for this.

WIm

On Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:43:15 UTC+1, Wim Feijen wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> For my blog archive pages, I like to use a pull-down where the selected 
> month is selected. 
>
> For that, I want to compare the selected year and month - which are in the 
> url, for example /blog/archive/2015/12/ and passed as context variables 
> into the template - and compare them with the year and month of all the 
> months in the archive pull-down.
>
> For me it gets difficult because the month from the url is converted using 
> a dictionary.
>
> See: 
> https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/blog/views.py
> line 4.  from calendar import month_name
> line 38.  month = month_name[int(month)]
>
> My site is Dutch, but month_name gives me English names. In another 
> multilingual site, the English version works fine, but the Dutch site does 
> not. Compare:
> https://www.roominreturn.nl/en/blog/archive/2015/7/ 
> https://www.roominreturn.nl/nl/blog/archive/2015/7/ 
>
> What would be a proper solution? 
>
> For me, one solution would be if the blog views passed the selected month 
> as an integer into the context. But maybe there are other solutions?
>
> Currently, I am using in my template:
>                               <div id="archive">
>                         {% with year as selected_year %}
>                         {% with month as selected_month %}
>                         {# YEAR: {{ selected_year }} MONTH: {{ 
> selected_month }} for debugging #}
>                         {% block blog_months %}
>                             {% blog_months as months %}
>                             {% if months %}
>
>                                 <h2 class="table-title">Nieuwsarchief</h2>
>
>                                 <select name="archive" class="" 
> id="archive-dropdown">
>                                     <option value="/nieuws/">Kies een 
> maand...</option>
>
>                                     {% for month in months %}
>
>                                         {% ifchanged 
> archive_month.date.year %}
>                                             <option value="" 
> disabled="disabled">{{ month.date.year }}</option>
>                                         {% endifchanged %}
>
>                                         <option value="{% url 
> "blog_post_list_month" year=month.date.year month=month.date.month %}" {% 
> if month.date|date:"Y" == selected_year and month.date|date:"F" == 
> selected_month|lower %} selected="selected" {% endif %}>
>                                             {{ month.date|date:"F" }}  ({{ 
> month.post_count }})
>
>                                             
>                                         </option>
>
>                                     {% endfor %}
>
>                                 </select>
>
>                             {% endif %}
>                         {% endblock %}
>                         {% endwith %}
>                         {% endwith %}
>                     </div>
>
>
> Thanks for your help!
>

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