Hello James
Your suggestion worked.
Thank you very much for your help.
Ron
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 10:04:04 PM UTC+1, James Schneider wrote:
>
> However, when I try to add the photo to the page I’m getting stuck. If I
>> try adding ‘<img src…’ as in the following:
>>
>>
>> {% block content %}
>> <!-- 'index' from urls.py -->
>> <a href="{% url 'indexurl' %}">< Back</a>
>> {% if pht != None %}
>> <h2>{{ pht.name }}</h2>
>> <h4>{{ pht.location.name }}</h4>
>> <p>{{ pht.description }}</p>
>> <p>{{ pht.photo_taken }}</p>
>> <img src={{ MEDIA_URL 'pht.photo_taken.name' }} class=
>> "responsive-img" style='max-height:100px;' alt="face">
>> {% else %}
>> <h1>Invalid item ID</h1>
>> {% endif %}
>> {% endblock %}
>>
>>
>> …I get the following message (curly brackets and enclosed text were
>> highlighted in red):
>> Could not parse the remainder: ' 'pht.photo_taken.name'' from 'MEDIA_URL
>> 'pht.photo_taken.name''
>>
>> 28 <img src={{ MEDIA_URL 'pht.photo_taken.name' }} class="responsive-img"
>> style='max-height:100px;' alt="face">
>>
>
>
>
> Note that {{ MEDIA_URL }} is strictly a variable reference and takes no
> other inputs. You are treating it as a template tag, which are enclosed
> using {% %}, hence the reason you are receiving this error.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> I’m clearly missing one or two important steps but cannot seen them. Can
>> anyone advise me on what I am doing wrong, please?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>
> What you likely want is this:
>
> <img src="{{ pht.photo_taken.url }}" class="responsive-img"
> style='max-height:100px;' alt="face">
>
> (Note that the src= has " surrounding both variables, and that I'm using
> pht.photo_taken.url rather than pht.photo_taken.name, which should only
> be used to reference the actual file on disk per the docs.)
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/#imagefield
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FileField.storage
>
> Which should render to something like this:
>
> <img
> src="/media/wildlifephotos/2017/07/26/2017-06-30_Lansdowne_-_Syrphus_Sp_A_01.JPG"
>
> class="responsive-img" style='max-height:100px;' alt="face">
>
> I don't even think you need MEDIA_URL in your templates given the .url
> shortcut provided by the ImageField model field. That's probably why
> MEDIA_URL is not made available in the template by default:
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#std:setting-MEDIA_URL
>
> -James
>
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