Re: Cheetah's #include base directory

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Aahz wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Pablo Antonio wrote:
> >> 
> >> Thing is some files have an '#include "<file>"' at the top. They usually
> >> include some header with the DOCTYPE and a title and that's pretty much
> >> it. Well, the problem is this <file> is being searched in the current
> >> directory the app is located, and not in the ./templates/ dir which is
> >> where the templates are.
> > 
> > Personally I don't use the #include directive ever (I find it too much
> > like Smarty (read: hacky)).
> 
> All right, how do you do create global template elements such as page
> footers?  I want to write them in Cheetah rather than Python because
> they're primarily HTML.

I use inheritance between pre-compiled templates (since it's tricky to do with
dynamic compilation), here's an example:

base.tmpl: http://github.com/rtyler/urlenco.de/blob/master/Urlencode/views/base.tmpl
index.tmpl: http://github.com/rtyler/urlenco.de/blob/master/Urlencode/views/index.tmpl

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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