mako.utf8

QUESTION
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MAKO.1: How does one use mako templates? (I m not asking how to write a template, just where to put them and how to make the rest of edx interact with them!)
 
Example: I want every yotuube video to be followed by an html block that says "here was a youtube video!". For this I make a template called videohtml, let's say. 
Where do I put the template (which folder), where do I signal that videohtml is a template name?

ANSWER
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MAKO.1

It will highly depend on the exact feature you want to alter - edx-platform is actually a
collection of django applications, so there are different set of templates and different
ways for the django applications to load them. How templates are loaded from views is
actually more of a Django question, even if the project doesn't use the default templating
language that comes with Django. 

If you haven't already, I would recommend spending some time getting familiar with the
Django documentation on this subject, which is very comprehensive: 

* Views and URLconf: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter03.html Django tutorial:
* https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/

Once this is done, the following should make more sense:

The structure is different from a typical Django application. For the LMS, the templates
are located in `lms/templates/` (cf video.html for example) and the urls conf which will
allow you to track down what handles a particular view (And thus calls the template you
are looking for) is in `lms.urls.py`. A similar structure exists for the CMS in `cms/`.

We can follow up with additional questions on this, if there are some specific parts you
want more precise explanations about.