Re: A simple question about ordering of posts

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:56:01PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> On 02/01/2010 04:50 PM, chombee wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:17:08PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> >> The "template" in the args dict in cb_head, cb_date_head, cb_story,
> >> cb_story_end and cb_foot callbacks is an actual template--it's not the
> >> name of a template.  These callbacks are renderer callbacks.
> >
> > Then it sounds like we're using the wrong callback. What we want to do
> > is change the template file that gets used, i.e. we want to change
> > template_name. We need a callback that will allow us to change
> > template_name, but only if the request is for a directory view not a
> > file view, so the callback needs to be able to tell what kind of view
> > was requested also. Our problem is just that we're still learning our
> > way around the callbacks and the life cycle of a pyblosxom request.
> 
> You're probably looking for the prepare callback which allows you to 
> change things just before rendering.
> 
How can one change the template for just one thing though at that
stage?  I want to change just the story template when certain
conditions are met.

> The lifecycle section of teh dev_architecture page should cover this, 
> but it seems to do so in a difficult to read fashion.  That should 
> probably get reworked.
> 
I think it does, but cb_prepare sounded too early.

-- 
Chris Green


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