Wow... django docs can be so confusing...
I could not believe it worked just by using upper case MEDIA_URL
Thanks so much :) :)
I spent a day trying figure this out...
On 8 July, 13:14, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 12:57 pm, justin jools <justinjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thank for your quick response Daniel.
> > I'm just confused about using media_url with generic views, I have
> > done it previously with:
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> > from django.conf import settings # for media_url
> > media_url = settings.MEDIA_URL
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> > def dblist(request):
> > obj_list_menu = dbModel1.objects.all()
> > return render_to_response('products/dblist.html', {'make_list':
> > obj_list_menu, 'media_url': media_url })
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> > but with generic views, have no views.py obviously, so I put it in
> > settings.py:
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> > from django.conf import settings # for media_url
> > media_url = settings.MEDIA_URL
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> > and in my base.html template:
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> > {{ media_url }}css/base.css
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> > but it's not picking it up? do i need to pass it with generic views?
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> But you don't need to set anything! As I said, generic views already
> have access to MEDIA_URL, as long as you don't remove it from the list
> of installed context processors. So I don't know why you want to
> define another variable called "media_url". Just use the existing
> upper-case one.
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