We have a store and need to have different promotional stuff show up for
each category's view. Since there is only one base_category.html template,
we need to create templates for each of our main categories that extend the
base.
In order to have the category-specific templates actually used it seems like
we need to write views that are otherwise identical to category_view, except
with the parameter template='product/detail_mycategory.html'.
Can we just make a product/views.py in the project folder that looks
something like this?:
##############################
from satchmo.product import views
def mycategory_view(request, slug, parent_slugs='',
template='base_category.html'):
"""Display the category, its child categories, and its products.
Parameters:
- slug: slug of category
- parent_slugs: ignored
"""
try:
category = Category.objects.get(slug=slug)
products = list(category.active_products())
sale = find_best_auto_discount(products)
except Category.DoesNotExist:
return bad_or_missing(request, _('The category you have requested
does not exist.'))
child_categories = category.get_all_children()
ctx = {
'category': category,
'child_categories': child_categories,
'sale' : sale,
'products' : products,
}
index_prerender.send(Product, request=request, context=ctx,
category=category, object_list=products)
return render_to_response(template, RequestContext(request, ctx))
##############################
...and then add to the project's urls.py something like this? (for each
custom category of course):
##############################
(r'^category/mycategory/$', 'mycategory_view', {}, 'satchmo_category'),
##############################
...and finally just extend the templates as usual by creating
product/detail_mycategory.html.
If these suspicions are correct we will go ahead and implement them. Then
Part 2 would be to create a couple custom models to hold banner images with
associated links to categories or products that the client can manipulate
through the admin interface. And then simply put stuff like <a href="{{
prouct_or_category_url }}"><img src="{{ media_url }}/images/{{
storename.bannername.path }}" /></a> etc. into the templates we created in
Part 1 of this exploration.
Thanks so much for any replies.
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