Django Custom Inclusion Tags

Question

I\'m trying to build my own template tags. I have no idea why I getting these errors. I\'m following the Django doc\'s.

This is my app\'s file structure:

Answer 1

You forgot to close your template tags... Also, you should change the name in the for tag, you can't have for poll in poll:

<ul>
{% for p in poll %} <!--here-->
    <li>{{ p.pollquiz }}</li>
{% endfor %} <!--and here-->
</ul>

Also notice you're not using the inclusion tag you defined at all. I think you got some code mixed up, try to go over a tutorial start to end and things will be clearer.

Answer 2

I'd not bother with writing your own template tags: take things one step at a time and stick to the basics for now. There's nothing wrong with {% include 'show_pollquiz.html' %}

Answer 3

Shouldn't all custom filters be inside the templatetags directory?

templatetags/
    __init__.py
    showpollquiz.py

then

@register.inclusion_tag('show_pollquiz.html')

looks in MY_TEMPLATE_DIR/show_pollquiz.html for the template

Answer 4

I found the problem. The problem was that the @register.inclusion_tag('show_pollquiz.html') inclusion tag is obviously looking for the template in the default_template directory. So that is why i got the error.

According to me this is not clear in the documentation. But I guess its how it is, being a template and all...

Oh , well.

Now, how would I put the @register.inclusion_tag('show_pollquiz.html') to look in the same folder as the app? under templatetags/?