Custom Template Tag - What do I need in my actual template?

[MerMer]

I'm steadily working through the excellent custom template tag
tutorial:-

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/06/07/django-tips-write-better-template-tags

I've got the following code to create a template tag.  However,  I'm
unclear as to what
I need to put into my actual template.

The author states, that based on the code below,  I would need to add
{% get_latest_polls 3 %} to the template, where 3 is a variable.
However, while this not not create any errors, it is also not returning
the latest 3 Polls.   What else do I need to add?

MerMer

from django import template
from mysite.polls.models import Poll, Choice

class LatestPollsNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self,num):
        self.num = num
    def render(self, context):
        context['polls'] = Poll.objects.all()[:self.num]
        return ''

def get_latest_polls(parser, token):
    bits = token.contents.split()
    if len(bits) !=2:
        raise TemplateSyntaxError, "get latest_latest_polls tag take
exactly one arguement"
    return LatestPollsNode(bits[1])
   
get_latest_polls = register.tag(get_latest_polls)


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[Tim Shaffer]

Your code looks valid as it is right now. The get_latest_polls function
should return a QuerySet of the three latest polls.

When you call this function it will get the polls and assign the
QuerySet to the "polls" variable for use in your template.

In order to display the polls, you would need to do something like
this:

{% get_latest_polls 3 %}

{% for poll in polls %}
    {{ polls.question }}
{% endfor %}


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[MerMer]

Tim,

Many thanks - that works a treat.  I was getting myself very confused
about where and how to use the context.

Cheers

MerMer


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