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I have a little statistics block that I want to be available in several places: the profile page of a user, and a search page with a list of users.
What would be the best way to proceed in repeating this block? I come from a PHP background, and in PHP it would be a simple include with passing some simple arguments. In django, I basically want to be able to call something like :
{% stats_block user %}
Where user is the object containing all the user info. I was thinking about a simple template tag, but the block is pretty big and I don't want to put eveything in one line in the template tag.
Thanks a lot!
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You can include templates with arguments:
{% include "name_snippet.html" with person="Jane" greeting="Hello" %}
But the best way to repeat a block in all templates, is to have a base template say base.html:
<html>
...
<div id="user-block">
{% if request.user.is_authenticated %}
hello {{ request.user }}
{% else %}
<a href="{% url acct_signup %}">Sign up!</a>
{% endif %}
</div>
...
<div id="body">
{% block body %}
{% endblock %}
</div>
...
</html>
For example, the contact template could be as simple as:
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block body %}
Contact use: [email protected]
{% endblock %}
Refer to documentation on template inheritance for more.
Finally, another great option is to make an inclusion_tag, which allows to hook some python context processing before actual template inclusion.
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You can write a custom template tag, which can render a specific template. Refer Inclusion tags.
From the link: Another common type of template tag is the type that displays some data by rendering another template.
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