I'm trying to add features to Django 1.2 admin's main page.
I've been playing with index.html, but features added to this page affect all app pages.
Any ideas on what template I'm supposed to use?
Thanks loads!!
You can use template hierarchy like:
index.html
...
{% block content %}
...
{% block mycontent %}My custom text{% endblock %}
...
{% endblock %}
app_index.html
...
{% block mycontent %}{% endblock %}
..
According to http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#overriding-vs-replacing-an-admin-template you will want to override admin/app_index.html
I have done this by modifying the admin/index.html template. You may also need to modify admin/base_site.html (depending on what you want to do, exactly).
These templates are found in the django/contrib/admin/templates/admin folder in a Django installation.
Update: That's exactly what I've done, see the screenshot fragment below. The section marked in red is the section I added, via HTML in admin/index.html. However, you don't say which version of Django you're using - my example is from a 1.0 installation.
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I have downloaded the following templates from admin.contrib: base.html, base_site.html and index.html.
I would like to extend index.html, but no matter what I do it does not seem to work.
In settings.py, I have declared the name of my app to override the order in which the admin files are render. So, I can edit the actual files and content does change when I run the server.
But, I create a file in the directory templates/admin/foo.html.
The code with foo.html is:
{% extends "admin/index.html" %}
{% block something %}
<p>Hello</p>
{% endblock %}
And I have change the file templates/admin/index.html to have {% block something %}{% end block %}
When I run the server, the content of foo.html does not display.
Do I need to add foo.html to my urls.py and create a function within views.py to render the content?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Foo.html is not recognized by Django admin. If you want to customize admin/index.html, do your changes in admin/index.html.
If you want to use a separate file, include it inside the admin/index.html like this:
{% include "foo.html" %}
Hope it helps!
I am trying to set up a proper workflow for a personal website.
I am using the Cactus static site generator which makes use of the Django template system.
I know what I want to do, but I am not sure how to do it as the tutorials for Cactus are limited.
This is what my directory structure looks like:
/mysite/pages/
/mysite/templates/
/mysite/mycontent/
/mysite/plugins/
My template, /mysite/pages/menu.html, looks like this:
<p>Welcome to the page!</p>
{% block body %}
{% endblock %}
And one of my page articles, /mysite/pages/testpage.html, looks like this
{% extends "menu.html" %}
{%block body %}
<p> Test Content </p>
{% endblock %}
But what I am trying to do is set this up so that whatever I want to write for Test Content can be written somewhere else and the copied in to the folder. Something like this:
{% extends "menu.html" %}
{%block body %}
{%include "../mysite/mycontent/TestContent.html}
{% endblock %}
Is this something that Django templates needs to manage? Like I said, I am using Cactus which uses Django templates but I have looked around and am not sure what the standard way of doing this is, even though it seems to work with MVC/MVT philosophy.
There is also an option to use Django plugins with Cactus.
Thanks!
I figured out what I was trying to do. I just had to include the html I wanted using the template language.
{% extends "menu.html" %}
{%block body %}
{% include "./file.html" %}
{% endblock %}
I am pretty new to Django. I am fiddling with zinnia to customize it and setting it up with my own theme/template etc. The main content displayed in the default template is following:
{% for object in object_list %}
{% include object.content_template with object_content=object.html_preview continue_reading=1 %}
{% empty %}
I understand that include includes the template inside a page. But what I cannot comprehend is: how do I find the relevant template being rendered? What is content_template? Please help me in understanding this snippet.
The template name (content_template) is being fetched from the database. It is a property of the model ContentTemplateEntry and defaults to zinnia/_entry_detail.html.
I'n trying to create inclusion tag so I can display data in my navigation bar on every page. The tag will be included in the "base.html" so that way it should display everywhere.
tags.py
#register.inclusion_tag('menu.html')
def show_hoods(HoodList):
gethoods = Hood.objects.all()
return {'gethoods': gethoods}
menu.html
{% for hood in gethoods %}
<h3>{{ hood.name }}</h3>
{% endfor %}
For some reason the menu.html template is blank and is not showing any data.
Also, once I have the menu.html running, will simple {% include 'menu.html' %} work inside the base.html? Will that be automatically rendered?
Edit:
Based on the feedback below, the code above is correct, however the base.html code was incorrect as the inclusion_tag is not loaded with {% include %} but {% load %} is used instead.
corrected base.html
{% load tags %}
{% show_hoods hoodlist %}
Thanks for the feedback!
Directly viewing the menu.html template will not display anything as it has no context variables set. gethoods will be empty so there will be nothing for the for loop in the template to loop over.
One of the main purposes of an include tag is to set extra context variables and then render a template using these variables. Directly viewing the template will show the template without the variables, but including the include template ({$ show_hood %} in your case) will add the context variables (gethoods) and render the template using them.
Answering your second question, you add include templates using their name, (the name of the function by default) rather than the {% include %} tag. The {% include %} tag is for when you simply want to render one template inside of another, and where it either doesn't need any context variables or uses the context variables available to its parent template.
How to do it "include tag" in jinja2. I need to output a block of articles in the base template. And they work in children.
views.py
Articles.query.filter_by(name=name).first()
base.html
{% block content %}
Content base
{% endblock %}
---{{ this_articles_tag }}----
children.html
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
Content children
{% endblock %}
---{{ output Articles }}----
Django in this "include tag", how to do it in jinja2? (Without using context_processor)
If you need to include another template in the template, just use include in Jinja. But if you are talking about template tags (in Django I remember I liked them a lot), then in Flask only your mentioned context_processor is the way to go. Which I think is not a bad thing at all.
Edit:
Easiest way to get context processor registered as a function is pointed in the documentation.
But if you want something more fancy, like dynamic loader or you will load your functrion from different places, then you can define your own decorator function, which basically wraps the function which returns dictionary:
def example_templatetag():
def get_something():
return get_want_you_want_from_db()
return dict(get_something=get_something)
Then where you create your Flask app object you can easily register this function:
app.context_processor(example_templatetag)
And then in a template you can use is like:
{% set data_you_wanted=get_something() %}
{{ data_you_wanted }}
But maybe for you the way mentioned in documentation will be more than enough ;)