Question

New to Django so sorry if this is trivial

I have a “base.html” template that is extended by a lot of other templates. In this “base.html” template I have a form that is generated from a “forms.Form” derived class called “SearchForm”
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The question is: Can I import “SearchForm” into the the “base.html” template instead of passing the “Searchform” as a context to every view that is derived from “base.html”

Answer 1

Use Django’s template context processor.

Here’s a simple example:

def search_form_context_processor(request):
    return {'form': SearchForm() }

Then update your settings.py with

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    ....
    my_module.search_form_context_processor,
    ....
)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#template-context-processors

After this, {{ form }} will be available on any templates which you render using render_to_response with a RequestContext passed in.