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tomasantonj
tomasantonj

Reputation: 43

Django template not showing database contents

This is for certain a newbie mistake, I have googled for plenty of hours now, not finding a working solution. I assume part due to not being sure what to search for exactly.

I am working on a tiny blog application, I have models for user, post, blogComment and that is all.

I have written views for blogIndex and for blogPost, that is a listing of all posts and a listing of specific posts.

The blogIndex is working in the view that it belongs to, it shows {{ post.content }} {{ post.author.firstname }} and so on with no problem.

The blogPost is however not. The view looks like this:

def blogPost(request, postID):
    blogPost = post.objects.get(id=postID)
    return render_to_response("blog_post.html", {"post":post})

The blog_post.html looks like this:

title: {{ post.title }}</br>
content: {{ post.content }}</br>
datetime: {{ post.datetime }}</br>
author: {{ post.author.first_name }} {{ post.author.last_name }}</br></br>

{% for comment in post.blogcomment_set.all %}
   Comment.firstName: {{comment.firstName}}</br>
   {{comment.lastName}}</br>
   {{comment.email}}</br>
   {{comment.datetime}}</br>
   {{comment.content}}</br>
{% endfor %}

With the same code in blog_index.html, I get a proper listing of title, content and so on.

This is from urls.py: 

url(r'^blog/$', blogIndex),
url(r'^blog/(?P<postID>\d+)$', blogPost),

I suspect something is wrong with the regex? I suspect something is more likely wrong with the view?

This is the view for blogIndex, which is working, but maybe helps with answers:

def blogIndex(request):
    posts = post.objects.all()
    return render_to_response("blog_index.html", {"posts":posts})

This, finally, is the code in blog_index.html:

{% for post in posts %}
<h3><a href="/blog/{{ post.id }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h3>
{{ post.content }}
<p>Posted by: {{ post.author.first_name }} {{ post.author.last_name }}<br /> At:    
{{ post.datetime }}</p>     

<p><strong>Comments: </strong><br />
    {% for comment in post.blogcomment_set.all %}
    By: {{ comment.firstname }}<br />
    Title: {{ comment.title }},<br />
    Content: {{ comment.content }}<br />
    Date: {{ comment.datetime }}</p>
    {% endfor %}  
{% endfor %}

Links to possible solutions or pointing me on the nose for being narrow sighted are both welcome input.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 996

Answers (1)

MattH
MattH

Reputation: 38247

def blogPost(request, postID):
    blogPost = post.objects.get(id=postID)
    return render_to_response("blog_post.html", {"post":post})

Should be:

def blogPost(request, postID):
    blogPost = post.objects.get(id=postID)
    return render_to_response("blog_post.html", {"post":blogPost})

Upvotes: 4

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