Django: provide month and year number as parameter in a template for use in template tag

Question

Hi,

I am a Django Beginner. I found this Django snippet to show a simple calendar on my web page. The function needed 3 parameters that one can provide within the template as follows:

{% load calendar_tag %}
<div>
<div>Calendar: </div>
{% get_calendar for 10 2010 as calendar %}
<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Mon</th>
        <th>Tue</th>
        <th>Wed</th>
        <th>Thu</th>
        <th>Fri</th>
        <th>Sat</th>
        <th>Sun</th>
    </tr>
    {% for week in calendar %}
    <tr>
        {% for day in week %}
        <td>{{ day.day }}</td>
        {% endfor %}
    </tr>
    {% endfor %}
</table>
</div>

How can I provide the number of the month and the year dynamically from the server, for example like:

{% now "jS F Y H:i" %}

It is not possible to have a block tag within a block tag. I would appreciate to use this simple calendar. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I would presume you would pass the params in when rendering the template in your view, like so:

def yourview(request, month, year):
    return render_to_string("template.html", {
        "month": month,
        "year": year,
    })

and then change get_calendar accordingly:

{% get_calendar for month year as calendar %}

Answer 2

I want to present, how I fixed my problem, for others who might have similar problems:

With the help of the user fish2000, I managed my question like this:

My defined view:

# Create your views here.
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

import datetime

def calender_view(request, template_name="custom_template_calender_tag.html"):
    d = datetime.date.today()
    recent_month = d.month
    recent_year = d.year
    return render_to_response(template_name, locals(),context_instance=RequestContext(request))

and then changed get_calendar from

{% get_calendar  for 10 2010 as calendar %}

to

{% get_calendar  for recent_month recent_year as calendar %}

to provide and render the recent month and year dynamically in my template custom_template_calender_tag.html.