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About the plugin internal pages.

'internal pages' definition

Plugins create normally parts of the CMS page. For these outputs a plugin can use the django template engine. These templates generates not complete html pages, but only a small part of it.
We called these plugin template 'internal pages'. See also PyLucid related terms and definitions

We are looking for a better/shorter name for "internal pages", see forum discussion

additional Stylesheet/JavaScript

Every internal page can have additional Stylesheet and/or JavaScript files. These files are optional.

The CSS/JS files would be automatic include with <link href=...> and <script src=...> if the internal page are used. (new in dev. version)

structure

The internal page stored into the PyLucid media path, e.g.:

The additional .css/.js files must be exactly the same name like the internal page file, e.g.:

To use the internal page for building a output via the django template engine, the plugin must only do that:

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class page_admin(PyLucidBasePlugin):
    def edit(self):
        ...
        context = {...}
        # Render the context with the django template engine and put the result
        # into the cms page content:
        self._render_template("edit_page", context)

i18n

There is no need for inserting {% load i18n %}. We always activate "i18n" via add_to_builtins()

debug

The method _render_template has a debug parameter, e.g.:

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self._render_template("edit_page", context, debug=True)