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've seen jpwatts', 110j's, nivhab's & Marcus Whybrow's answers, but they all seem to lack in something: what about the root path ? Why it's always active ?

So I've made an other way, easier, which make the "controller" decides by itself and I think it resolve most of the big problems.

Here is my custom tag:

## myapp_tags.py

@register.simple_tag
def nav_css_class(page_class):
    if not page_class:
        return ""
    else:
        return page_class

Then, the "controller" declares CSS classes needed (in fact, the most important is it declares its presence to the template)

## views.py

def ping(request):
    context={}
    context["nav_ping"] = "active"
    return render(request, 'myapp/ping.html',context)

And finally, I render it in my navigation bar:

{% load myapp_tags %}
...


    Accueil


    Candidats


    Ping


    Statistiques

...

So each page has its own nav_css_class value to set, and if it's set, the template renders active: no need of request in template context, no URL parcing and no more problems about multi-URL pages or root page.