Re: Is there a way to make the template process {{ MEDIA_URL }} if it is stored in a model field.

Ok, thanks. It seems like such a common use case that I wanted to be sure there was not an existing template tag for it.


On Sunday, 30 August 2015 14:48:47 UTC-7, Christophe Pettus wrote:

On Aug 30, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Dennis Marwood <dennis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How do I get the template to treat {{ }} in my entry as a variable?
>
> The Django template language doesn't iterate over the results of expansion; once a substitution is done, it moves on.  So, template language constructs that "appear" in the result due to variable expansion.

As a note, this is a feature, not a bug: If template expansion iterated like that, it would be a serious security hole, since someone could drop template items ( {{ entry.delete }}, anyone?) into user-edited content.

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