snippet templatetag not usable outside django-cms

[deutrino]

Hello,

I'm developing a site with a mixture of django-cms and non-django-cms pages. The snippets plugin would be quite useful for sharing snippets between these, except there seems to be no template tag that I can import in order to use it easily in a non-django-cms template. It would be very nice if this were easy (or possible) to do.

[ojii]

this is possible now!

[vanschelven]

ojii, would you care to elaborate on how this is possible? I can't find any such tag...

[bradbeattie]

"this is possible now!"

Please elaborate. The plugins/snippet code doesn't seem to have any template tags.

[Lacrymology]

well, make it! it should be easy enough, as long as you have a way of identifying snippets

[bradbeattie]

As a quick proof of concept:

from cms.plugins.snippet.models import Snippet
from cms.plugins.snippet.cms_plugins import SnippetPlugin
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def show_snippet(name):
    try:
        return SnippetPlugin().render(
            {},
            type('obj', (object,), {'snippet' : Snippet.objects.get(name = name)}),
            None
        )['content']
    except Snippet.DoesNotExist:
        return ""