Question

I’m trying to do this, and failing. Is there any reason why it wouldn’t work in Django template syntax? I’m using the latest version of Django.

{% ifequal entry.created_at|timesince '0 minutes' %} 

Answer 1

It doesn’t work because it’s not supposed to work. What you’re asking for is not part of the template language.

You can’t apply a filter in the middle of tag like {% ifequal. When a template tag uses a variable, it doesn’t expect an expression, it expects a variable, nothing more.

That kind of logic — extracting time since, comparing, etc. — is what you’re supposed to do in your view function.

Your view function then puts a ‘zerominutes’ item in the context for the template to use. Templates just can’t do much processing.

They’re designed to do the minimum required to render HTML. Everything else needs to be in your view function.