On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:43:53 +0200, Kai Kuehne wrote:
> 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: ]).
>
> 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
>
>
Hi, Kai!
This is a very common problem, but one that I think has many different
implementations.
What I did in one of my projects is to use a JS editor (at this point I
opted for WYM Editor), which has a function to insert image tags if you
give it a URL. I think that is the most-widely used approach.
In my project, I also have a photo gallery app, which members can use to
upload and organise their photos. They can grab a thumbnail image
location using their browser context menu and paste it (or I could
provide the whole img tag with a 'src', 'title' attributes wrapped in an
anchor tag pointing to that page, I haven't decided on it yet.).
The photos are not related to a blog post entry, as they could also
include photos from other sites, if they wanted.
The problem is that if the image is not available anymore, I have no way
of checking it and it won't show in the post.
The way you designed it ensures that the image(s) remain with the post,
so to speak, but how do you decide how to display them within the post
body text?
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