phil on Cheetah templates overriding

August 12, 2005 12:16 PM

Good point Deelan ;)

Actually the same trick is used by the framework behind this blog, but with #defS instead of #blockS

See the basic template:

http://svn.pythonfr.org/public/alinea/Alinea/templates/SitePage.tmpl

And one custom template (the #extends is added a posteriori):

http://svn.pythonfr.org/public/alinea/Alinea/designs/redFlower/SitePage_c.tmpl

deelan on Cheetah templates overriding

August 12, 2005 11:27 AM

"I don't think that trick will work if you don't compile your templates to Python code."

Correct, actually you have to precompile the base class.

In Subway[1] we managed to automatically compile the whole template hierarchy upon request. Builiding web site using Cheetah and his #extends directive is great. As you have written you can write some default markup into parent template #blockS and then override only when you really need to. No more ugly includes :)

For example, base site.html:

http://subway.python-hosting.com/file/sandbox/bikini/view/site.html

and one view which overrides both "content" and "nav" #blocks:

http://subway.python-hosting.com/file/sandbox/bikini/view/entry/show.html

-- deelan

[1] http://subway.python-hosting.com/

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