Django newbie at work and I could use some pointers. I'm using django-profile and have been working on my profile page which is handled by the views.profile_detail. The problem I am facing is I am unable to put another variable in my template by using this view. Here is my view function:
def profile_detail(request, username, public_profile_field=None,
template_name='profiles/profile_detail.html',
extra_context=None):
"""
Detail view of a user's profile.
If no profile model has been specified in the
``AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE`` setting,
``django.contrib.auth.models.SiteProfileNotAvailable`` will be
raised.
If the user has not yet created a profile, ``Http404`` will be
raised.
**Required arguments:**
``username``
The username of the user whose profile is being displayed.
**Optional arguments:**
``extra_context``
A dictionary of variables to add to the template context. Any
callable object in this dictionary will be called to produce
the end result which appears in the context.
``public_profile_field``
The name of a ``BooleanField`` on the profile model; if the
value of that field on the user's profile is ``False``, the
``profile`` variable in the template will be ``None``. Use
this feature to allow users to mark their profiles as not
being publicly viewable.
If this argument is not specified, it will be assumed that all
users' profiles are publicly viewable.
``template_name``
The name of the template to use for displaying the profile. If
not specified, this will default to
:template:`profiles/profile_detail.html`.
**Context:**
``profile``
The user's profile, or ``None`` if the user's profile is not
publicly viewable (see the description of
``public_profile_field`` above).
**Template:**
``template_name`` keyword argument or
:template:`profiles/profile_detail.html`.
"""
user = get_object_or_404(User, username=username)
# accuracy = ''
try:
profile_obj = user.get_profile()
accuracy = str(profile_obj.number_of_answers / profile_obj.number_of_answers) + '%'
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
raise Http404
if public_profile_field is not None and \
not getattr(profile_obj, public_profile_field):
profile_obj = None
if extra_context is None:
# extra_context = {'accuracy': potato}
extra_context = {}
context = RequestContext(request)
# context['accuracy'] = 'potato'
for key, value in extra_context.items():
context[key] = callable(value) and value() or value
return render_to_response(template_name,
{'profile': profile_obj},
# { 'profile': profile_obj, 'accuracy': accuracy},
# locals(),
context_instance=context)
and here is my template:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block content %}
<p><strong>Level:</strong><br>{{ profile.level }}</p>
<p><strong>Bounty Points:</strong><br>{{ profile.total_bounty_points }}</p>
<p><strong>Number of questions:</strong><br>{{ profile.number_of_questions_asked }}</p>
<p><strong>Number of replies:</strong><br>{{ profile.number_of_replies }}</p>
<p><strong>Number of answers:</strong><br>{{ profile.number_of_answers }}</p>
<p><strong>Accuracy:</strong><br>{{ accuracy }}</p>
<p><strong>Number of times reported:</strong><br>{{ profile.reported_by_others }}</p>
{% endblock %}
May I know where the value profile is being passed from? Is it from the dictionary {'profile': profile_obj} or is it from the context? I tried commenting out both but the template still renders fine.
I have also tried to create a new variable called accuracy in my template but I am unable to get it to render and the template simply fails silently. I then added TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID = '%s' to my settings file which allowed me to see that the accuracy variable is not found. May I know what I did wrong?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks :)
Argh I found the problem! I was changing the wrong file >_< as my python install had written to the default directory.