Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Uploading images

In this recipe, we will take a look at the easiest way to handle image uploads. You will see an example of an app, where the visitors can upload images with inspirational quotes.

Getting ready

Make sure to have Pillow or PIL installed in your virtual environment or globally.

Then, let's create a quotes app and put it in INSTALLED_APPS in the settings. Then, we will add an InspirationalQuote model with three fields: the author, quote text, and picture, as follows:

# quotes/models.py # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- from __future__ import unicode_literals import os from django.db import models from django.utils.timezone import now as timezone_now from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible ...