So I 'm working on a project in django - it's like a variation of a blog. There will be 4 mini blogs within the website and the admin for each can create new posts - so they can also add an image to their post.
Now that django has recently been update (django 3.0 is here), I was wondering, what is the best way to store and serve these images in production? Could someone maybe link to a part in the documentation? I don't think this will come under staticfiles will it? I searched the documentation with keywords like "Media", "Serving images" etc but didn't really find much.
EDIT: The project is quite small and I want to save files inside a folder of my django project.
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I am trying to upload an image using a form with Django. First off, I don't know if I should be doing this with django or a combination of jQuery and Django. Second, I am looking for a simple tutorial using 1.7 and can't seem to find one. Is there something like this for version 1.7. I'm just looking for something super simple and then I can expand from there.
Code from your link should work perfectly in django 1.7.
The linked tutorial will work for Django 1.7, along with pretty much any tutorial. The one thing you're going to run into that's different in 1.7 is that the migrations are built into Django now instead of using a 3rd Party App called South.
You definitely should be using django forms to upload the image, it's really simple once you get the hang of it - it's just like another field. You definitely should not use a combination of JQuery and Django.
If Django can't do what you're wanting to accomplish, take a look at Django Crispy Forms. I would suggest getting an understanding of just using Django image uploading first through, regardless.
Hope this helps. Also take a look at the Official Documentation of file uploads, if you haven't already.
I'm following the tutorial contained here:
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter06.html
They say that the admin site should look like this:
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/_images/admin_index.png
When I start the admin site, though, it looks really simplistic, just plain text and links:
Django administration
Welcome, admin. Change password / Log out
Site administration
Auth
Groups Add Change
Users Add Change
Recent Actions
My Actions
None available
I noticed that it looks all nice like the link when I uncomment django.contrib.staticfiles from the INSTALLED_APPS, although that wasn't mentioned in the tutorial...can someone please explain this behavior to me?
Thank you for your help!
The Django Book is a little out of date (although an update is in the works I believe):
This book was originally published by Apress in 2009, and covered Django 1.0. Since then, it’s languished. We’re working on getting the book updated to cover Django 1.4, 1.5, and beyond
Static files are all the CSS/JS & images that your site (and the django admin) uses. They need to be collected and placed somewhere that your server (or development server) can serve them. This is the job of django.contib.staticfiles.
You can read more about this in the 'Managing Static Files' documentation
Websites generally need to serve additional files such as images, JavaScript, or CSS. In Django, we refer to these files as “static files”. Django provides django.contrib.staticfiles to help you manage them.
I have created a website using Django 1.4.3. I'd now like to add a simple blog to it. I'm thinking a good way to do this would be to add a new blogging app to my existing Django project? Are there any simple Django blog apps that I could "drop in" to my existing project to achieve this?
Also, I have an existing blog on Posterous that I have exported (a set of folders and a wordpress_export_1.xml file.)
It would be great if I could somehow import this into my new Django based blog.
https://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps
django-basic-apps (formerly django-basic-blog) has a blog app (and included apps to help said blog app) that might be what you're looking for.
Or you can try http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/en/lessons/microblog-kitchen-sink/ . It is a free courses by Kenneth Love.
as it says, I want django cms engine that have the capabilities of wordpress.
I wanna build something like tutsplus.com network but want it in python/django base.
Django is a framework, so it would be a bit more involved than wordpress for the most part to make something like tutsplus out of the box.
Check out
http://pinaxproject.com/ (I dig pinax) or
https://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps
But you might also want to dig deeper into django based CMSs (via other posts) like:
Django CMS which is the best?
Integrate existing blog code into Django-CMS?
more detailed list of Django based CMSs here:
http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/cms/
Hope that helps.
I have experience with django-cms and I found it very well documented and easy to start with. I still have to figure out good way of putting forms into it.
I have a hard time understanding how photologue works exactly.
Is anybody aware of a Example Project Tutorial where I can display a gallery via Django-Photologue. Where Imagelinks are stored in a database?
Or how can I achieve that in Django?
Or what else is out there to create a decent Photo Display?
Thanks for the time!
The best way to get started with photologue is to start a new django project, and follow the installation instructions. Then, load up the django admin and start adding photos and creating galleries. You should be able to get a good understanding of Photologue that way.
Photologue is based around the concept of having gallerys of images with different photo sizes and effects. It's great if you want to show a gallery of images. If you are looking to intergrate images into your own apps, you might find ImageKit much more useful. I think it's based on Photologue, but instead of giving you automated photo galleries it provides hooks that you can use to do manage photos programmatically.
Here is an example project by the author of photologue:
https://github.com/jdriscoll/django-photologue/tree/master/example_project