Re: Basic use of #extends

Wow that works beautifully :) Thanks!

Chris.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Tavis Rudd <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.htmlbut
>>> with no luck.
>>>
>>> Hopefully someone out there can quickly explain to me how I should go
>>> about
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris.
>>>
>>>
>>

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