Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.
I'll try to explain why I don't think that will work and hopefully you
will tell me I'm wrong ;-)

Lets say I have a template, base.html that looks something like this:

<whatever html>
{% block A %}{% endblock %}
{% block B %}{% endblock %}
more html

Block A contains, lets say, news items. Block B contains my page. B is
filled in by various different apps (probably by displaying a template
which includes base.html), but A should always be filled in by the
same app, regardless of the app controlling B (preferably from its own
template). The two apps should not know or care about each other
(except, obviously, if the news is specific to the page, but lets
ignore that for now).

When I have a view in an app, I'd normally make it display some
template, which would in turn include another template, all the way
down to the base template. But, what I want to do seems to have two
root templates which include the base template... am I missing
something or thinking about the problem wrong?

I hope people understand :-P

Thanks!
Dan.

2008/6/5 Bartosz Ptaszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> If you want something to be displayed on all of your pages why not
> adding it to the master template that you extend later on with
> specific templates.
> You could also use the {% include %} tag to include the template in
> other template.
> Remember that you always work with the context provided to the
> template by the current view. So for example when you have two views
> using different templates, and both include your extra template, you
> will have to make sure that you provide all the data the extra
> template needs to display properly to both views.
> If you are using generic views you can use extra_content dictionary to
> pass any extra data your template may need.
>
> I hope I've managed to explain this...
>
> ---
> Bart
>
> On 5 Jun 2008, at 17:39, Daniel Kersten wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I have a django app, for example, some sort of news feed, or maybe
>> adds - whatever, which I want to display on all (or most) of my pages
>> (handled by different views) and this app has it's own template to
>> handle how it's displayed, how do I connect it up to the app(s) that
>> handle the pages?
>>
>> My instinct tells me there must be a better way than to manually call
>> it from each of my views, seems like bad code duplication to me, but I
>> don't really know how one would normally handle this.
>> Also, let's say that this app should behave differently depending on
>> which page the user is currently on. (eg, news or adds related only to
>> that specific page - the code is the exact same, but different data is
>> fetched from the database).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help or tips!!
>> Dan.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Kersten.
>> Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985.
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>



-- 
Daniel Kersten.
Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985.

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