Hi Hal,
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:26 PM, <ltc.hots...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Charito,
>
> What tool did you use to insert your python codes into the marked fields
> below, i.e., settings.py, my models.py, etc?
>
> Regards,
> Hal
>
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> *From:* charito.romeo <charito.ro...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:20 PM
> *To:* django-users@googlegroups.com
>
> Never mind. I figured it out. For some reason, {{ MEDIA_URL }} doesn't
> work but {{ media_url }} does. Now all my movies and images are rendered.
> Cheers. :)
>
> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:16:52 PM UTC+8, charito.romeo wrote:
>>
>> Hi django folks,
>>
>> I ran into a hiccup when I was rendering media files in templates during
>> development. I wanted to render the image and the video that was uploaded
>> by the user BUT instead of the contents of the image and the video being
>> rendered, the name of the file was rendered instead.
>>
>> I am using python 2.7.9 and django 1.8.3. Here are my codes relevant to
>> the question I'm asking:
>>
>> settings.py
>>
>> BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
>>
>> STATIC_URL = '/static/'
>>
>> STATIC_PATH = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
>> '/var/www/static/',)
>>
>> STATICFILES_DIRS = (
>> STATIC_PATH,
>> )
>> MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> my models.py:
>>
>> class Entry(models.Model):
>> VIDEO_ENTRY_TYPE = (
>> ('SEMINAR', 'Seminar'),
>> ('LECTURE', 'Lecture'),
>> ('TALK', 'Talk'),
>> )
>> user = models.ForeignKey(User)
>> video = models.FileField(upload_to='video_entries')
>> entry_type = models.CharField(max_length=100,
>> choices=VIDEO_ENTRY_TYPE)
>> title = models.CharField(max_length=250)
>>
>>
>> class EntryForm(ModelForm):
>> class Meta:
>> model = Entry
>> fields = ['video', 'entry_type', 'title']
>>
>>
>> my views.py:
>> from django.shortcuts import render
>> from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
>> from django.http import HttpResponse
>> from django.views.generic import ListView
>>
>> from . models import User, Entry, EntryForm
>>
>> class IndexView(ListView):
>> template_name = 'pi_app/index.html'
>> context_object_name = 'latest_seminars'
>>
>> def get_queryset(self):
>> return
>> Entry.objects.filter(entry_type='SEMINAR').order_by('-pub_date') [:10]
>>
>> def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
>> context = super(IndexView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
>> context['latest_lectures'] =
>> Entry.objects.filter(entry_type='LECTURE').order_by('-pub_date') [:10]
>> context['latest_talks'] =
>> Entry.objects.filter(entry_type='TALK').order_by('-pub_date') [:10]
>>
>> my urls.py:
>>
>> from django.conf.urls import url
>> from django.conf import settings
>> from django.conf.urls.static import static
>>
>> from . import views
>>
>> urlpatterns = [
>> url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
>> url(r'^upload_file/$', views.upload_file, name='upload_file')
>> ]+ static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
>>
>>
>> my template.py:
>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>>
>> {% load staticfiles %}
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Homepage</title>
>> </head>
>>
>> <body>
>> <h1> Welcome {{ user }} </h1>
>>
>> <!-- SAMPLE BLOCK THAT I WANT THE MEDIA FILES RENDERED -->
>>
>> {% block seminar %}
>> <section id="latest_seminars">
>>
>> <h2>Most Recent Seminars</h2>
>>
>> {% if latest_seminars %}
>> <ul>
>> {% for seminar in latest_seminars %}
>>
>> <video width="350", height="250", alt="{{
>> seminar.title }}" controls >
>> <source src= "{{MEDIA_URL }} {{ seminar.video
>> }}"/>
>> </video>
>> {{ seminar.title }} by {{ seminar.user }}
>> {% endfor %}
>> </ul>
>> {% endif %}
>> </section>
>> {% endblock seminar %}
>>
>>
>>
>> Normally, the video or the image will be rendered. In my case, its not
>> rendered. What is rendered instead is the name of the movie file
>> (media/video_entries/name_of _movie_file) or the name of the image file
>> (media/video_entries/name_of _image_file). All the other variables are
>> rendered correctly except the media files. What am I missing? Please
>> enligthen me. Your help is hightly appreciated. Thanks.
>>
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