Not sure if this is something worth posting here or not, but I was
encouraged to put it up for discussion at least by somebody that knows more
than me :)
I was recently wanting to display user-uploaded media from a template (an
avatar pic in my navbar), and I couldn't really work out the "righ
Hi Mike,
I think you want to use {{ user.avatar.url }}.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.fields.files.FieldFile.url
For future reference, since this is more of a usage question, it would be
better to post to django-users. If you want to suggest a documen
Thanks for the suggestion for that specific case. I'll definitely use that!
It doesn't, however, address the general case. I have images saved at
different URLs that aren't tied to a File field (eg. Resized versions). So
the question remains: are the docs clear enough to explain how to do this?
O
I have no problem with your solution, or use MEDIA_URL as described at
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#media-url.
Generally for resized versions I'd use a third-party solution that offers
some helpers like
https://sorl-thumbnail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html#templat
There's also the media context processor that will inject MEDIA_URL into
every template context, which is very similar to how get_media_prefix
works:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/templates/api/#django-template-context-processors-media
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 22:46, Mike Nicholson
wrot
