How to upload an image in Django

Question

I'm creating a new app in django environment. I want to upload image of user when he/she sign-up's in my app and i want to use the same image when he/she posts any comment in my app. So how to integrate image-uploading code into my app code?

Answer 1

You should be using UserProfile as has been answered here Django user profile and have the ImageField in there.

Then create a ModelForm for the UserProfile and render it wherever you want the user to setup their profile and add a user image. The Model form will render the ImageField as a file upload field and have default handles for it. Make sure you have MEDIA_URL configured in your settings.py . You would also need PIL installed in your path for the image upload to work.

You can access the UserProfile instance for your user doing user.get_profile in your templates and as a callable elsewhere.