Django CMS - check if placeholder is empty

I use:

• DjangoCMS 2.4
• Django 1.5.1
• Python 2.7.3

I would like to check if my placeholder is empty.

<div>
    {% placeholder "my_placeholder" or %}
    {% endplaceholder %}
</div>

I don't want the html between the placeholder to be created if the placeholder is empty.

{% if placeholder "my_placeholder" %}
<div>
    {% placeholder "my_placeholder" or %}
    {% endplaceholder %}
</div>
{% endif %}

There is no built-in way to do this at the moment in django-cms, so you have to write a custom template tag. There are some old discussions about this on the django-cms Google Group:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-cms/WDUjIpSc23c/discussion
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-cms/iAuZmft5JNw/yPl8NwOtQW4J
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/django-cms/QeTlmxQnn3E
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-cms/2mWvEpTH0ns/discussion

Based on the code in the first discussion, I've put together the following Gist:

• https://gist.github.com/timmyomahony/5796677

I use it like so:

{% load extra_cms_tags %}
{% get_placeholder "My Placeholder" as my_placeholder %}

{% if my_placeholder %}
<div>
    {{ my_placeholder }}
</div>
{% endif %}