A convenient way to include images in a blog entry

[Kai Kuehne]

Hi list!
In the last past hours I've been thinking about how
to include images into my django blog application.

At first, I added a new field to my "Entry" django
model and named it "image". This worked but I decided that
(maybe) I want to include more than one image in a blog
entry. So I created an "Image" model and created
a relation between the "Entry" via the ManyToManyField.

Now I'm thinking about how I could include the images
into the 'Entry' without typing in the whole url on my one.

So I came up with this piece of code:

class Entry(models.Model):
    images = models.ManyToManyField(Image)
....
    def save(self):
        """Replace $imageX with the image url before saving."""
        image_list = self.images.all()
        for i in xrange(0, len(image_list)):
            self.intro = self.intro.replace("$image%i" % i,
image_list[i].get_image_url())
            self.body = self.body.replace("$image%i" % i,
image_list[i].get_image_url())

Now I can insert "$image0" to include the first image, "$image1"
for the second.. (or when using markdown, what I do: ![]($image0)]).

It works more or less but this is very ugly in my opion.
So has anybody of you came up with a better solution
to this problem?

Thanks!
Kai

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