Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of CookBookUsingExternalMedia

Timestamp:

Nov 30, 2009, 9:02:09 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

oyvind

Comment:

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CookBookUsingExternalMedia

@@ -8 +8 @@
 }}}
 
-You would instead insert {{media_url}} so that it would look like:
+You would instead insert {{ MEDIA_URL }} so that it would look like:
 
 {{{
-blah blah <img src="{{media_url}}/img/foo.jpg" alt="this is a foo"> blah blah..
+blah blah <img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/img/foo.jpg" alt="this is a foo"> blah blah..
 }}}
 
 It generally requires a big search and replace the first time you implement it. After that, seeing other
-references in the templates has been enough to remind me to use {{media_url}} before any static content.
+references in the templates has been enough to remind me to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} before any static content.
 
-We could pass {{media_url}} in through each view, but since we'll want it throughout the site, it's often easier to
+We could pass {{ MEDIA_URL }} in through each view, but since we'll want it throughout the site, it's often easier to
 set up a simple context processor to do the heavy lifting.
+
+Note: There is a default media context processor since version 1.0. You can access using {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates.
+
+Then in the settings.py under TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, add:
+   "django.core.context_processors.media",
+
+But if you are still on django 0.96:
 
 Here's a example snippet from a context process:
 
 {{{
-from myproject import constants
 from django.conf import settings
 
 def common(request):
-    ctx = {}
-    ctx['constants'] = constants
-    ctx['media_url'] = settings.MEDIA_URL
-    ... more stuff here ...
-    return ctx
+    return {'MEDIA_URL': settings.MEDIA_URL}
 }}}
 
 Then in the settings.py under TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, we added:
-   "myproject.context_processors.common",
+   "mysite.context_processors.common",
 
-and from there, the MEDIA_URL in settings.py became available in all templates as {{media_url}}.
-
-Note: There is a default media context processor since revision 5379 and will be included in version 0.97 once it is released.  See http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/5379.  You can access using {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates.
+and from there, the MEDIA_URL in settings.py became available in all templates as {{ MEDIA_URL }}.