Navigation in django

Question

I\'ve just done my first little webapp in django and I love it. I\'m about to start on converting an old production PHP site into django and as part its template, there is a

Answer 1

I liked the cleanness of 110j above so I took most of it and refactored to solve the 3 problems I had with it:

1. the regular expression was matching the 'home' url against all others
2. I needed multiple URLs mapped to one navigation tab, so I needed a more complex tag that takes variable amount of parameters
3. fixed some url problems

Here it is:

tags.py:

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.tag
def active(parser, token):
    args = token.split_contents()
    template_tag = args[0]
    if len(args) < 2:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "%r tag requires at least one argument" % template_tag
    return NavSelectedNode(args[1:])

class NavSelectedNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, patterns):
        self.patterns = patterns
    def render(self, context):
        path = context['request'].path
        for p in self.patterns:
            pValue = template.Variable(p).resolve(context)
            if path == pValue:
                return "active" # change this if needed for other bootstrap version (compatible with 3.2)
        return ""

urls.py:

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'/$', view_home_method, {}, name='home_url_name'),
    url(r'/services/$', view_services_method, {}, name='services_url_name'),
    url(r'/contact/$', view_contact_method, {}, name='contact_url_name'),
    url(r'/contact/$', view_contact2_method, {}, name='contact2_url_name'),
)

base.html:

{% load tags %}

{% url home_url_name as home %}
{% url services_url_name as services %}
{% url contact_url_name as contact %}
{% url contact2_url_name as contact2 %}


    Home
    Services
    Contact