将图像附加到Django模型中

Question

Making a basic Q&A site and want to associate each question with an image (admin uploaded) and if there is no respective image, puts it with a default "No Image" placeholder.

I have two models, Question and Answer (see below). Each question needs to have an image associated with it, so I thought the best way was to attach attribute ImageField with the Question model.

#models.py
class Question(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length = 500)
    picture = models.ImageField(height_field = '250',
                                width_field = '200',
                                upload_to = 'images')
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

When I runserver though, tells me to download Python Imaging Library, and when I do get an error (different problem).

Taking a step back, what is the best way to add an image to a model in Django?

Answer 1

Forget PIL...

Use a location URL DB entry. Instead of having an ImageField(), use

picturepath = models.CharField(255)

that contains a URL to the static location of the image.

so if STATIC_URL = "http://127.0.0.1/static/" and picturepath = "images/poots.png"

Then, pass that information along in the view, and use this in the template:

<img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}{{ question.picturepath }}">

will provide

<img src="http://127.0.0.1/static/images/poots.png">