I was trying to set up a template context processor like this article mentions so that I could provide information to every template.
I wrote this function in views.py:<
Django has a default set of TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, which you need to manually add when adding your own. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#template-context-processors
Depending on your Django version these are different, however if using Django 1.3 you might have something as follows
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
"django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
"django.core.context_processors.debug",
"django.core.context_processors.i18n",
"django.core.context_processors.media",
"django.core.context_processors.static",
"django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
"Store.views.items_in_cart",
)