Re: Basic use of #extends

Hi Chris,
You can also use the cheetah import hooks to compile the base class 
dynamically (see the module Cheetah.ImportHooks).
Cheers,
Tavis

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Chris Stoyles wrote:

> Ok so I worked it out last night. What wasn't obvious to me (which perhaps
> would have been had I read the user guide in its entirety) was that you
> create your HTML template (base.tmpl) first. You then run the "cheetah
> compile /path/to/base.tmpl" which creates your base.py file. I followed the
> same steps for my page template and then everything fell into place.
> Hopefully I've not wasted anyone's time.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Chris Stoyles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I am trying to do something which I think should be fairly trivial, but am
>> yet to work out how to do it in Cheetah. I want a base template for my site
>> (base.html) with a block in it (#block main_content) which I can fill-out or
>> override in another template.
>>
>> In Django I would include the following statement at the top of my other
>> template:
>> {extends "/var/www/my/app/templates/base.html"}
>>
>> Then to fill in one of the blocks defined in base.html I would just do
>> this:
>> {% block main_content %}
>> ...html...
>> {% endblock %}
>>
>> I've tried my best to understand this page:
>> http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/docs/users_guide_html_multipage/inheritanceEtc.extends.html but
>> with no luck.
>>
>> Hopefully someone out there can quickly explain to me how I should go about
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris.
>>
>

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