tutorial for jinja2 integration issue?
 
   
  
 
 
I'd like to add few more pages(in django template) to askbot. 

(extends two_column_body.html but use django template syntax)
 
Or someone might want to add askbot to his/her already operational site as an add-on.  
 
I encountered jinja2 for the first time and I find it very hard to integrate jinja2 powered templates with other regular django-templates.  
 
I've seen some homeworks..
 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15157997/django-app-not-running-after-installing-askbot/15160726#15160726
 
http://askbot.org/en/question/8105/why-does-askbot-use-jinja/
 
I wonder if you have a plan to make it easy to integrate askbot with other parts of a site. 

by providing a tutorial or 

by providing regular-django template for base.html or 

by .. who knows what else..
 
Not allowing staticfiles to work with askbot makes it harder..
 
 
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This solution is quite interesting http://concentricsky.com/blog/2013/jan/extending-jinja2-django-templates (linked from the same SO page) although I would just ditch the django templates because Jinja2 is significantly better. You are mentioning "not allowing staticfiles to work with askbot" - it seems to work for us - where do you see the issue.
 
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
Ok, then suppose I have another app called MyApp.(to separate files from ones provided by askbot) I want to {% extend askbot_template.html %} from MyApp's templates. What's the required setup for this? 'Not allowing..' I don't know where I got that idea..  Probably, I saw an old askbot forum posting where it mentions staticfiles doesn't work.  Maybe askbot didn't allow staticfiles and now it does?
 
 
 pcompassion's avatar pcompassion (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
http://concentricsky.com/blog/2013/jan/extending-jinja2-django-templates I tried the solution and works fine. But it breaks when you have more than 1-depth extend.  a.html extend my_common.html extend_jinja jinja_template.html  nothing in a.html shows up.. :( 
 
 
 pcompassion's avatar pcompassion (11 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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