Django Galleries (django-galleries)

A Django app which makes image galleries that may be added to any template.

You don't have to make or manage any complicated relationships with your models. Create a gallery, add your images, then display them on any page by using a template tag.

This project is new so there'll be quite a bit of changes. I'll document these changes as well as I can.

REQUIREMENTS

Django 1.7+, Pillow, and a database configured.

INSTALLATION

Make sure you have specified MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL in your Django Settings File.

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'galleries',
)
GALLERIES_THUMBNAIL_SIZE = (200,200)

urls.py

import galleries
...
    # Make sure the following line is above the "include admin.site.urls" line
    url(r'^admin/galleries/generate-thumbnails/', include('galleries.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

Run the migrations

./manage.py migrate

USAGE

Django Template of Your Page Using get_gallery Template Tag

{% load galleries_tags %}

<style>

</style>

{% get_gallery 3 as gallery %}

{{ gallery.name }}

{% for image in gallery.image_set.all %}
<a href="{{ image.image.url }}" target="_blank"><img src="{{ image.thumbnail }}"></a>
{% endfor %}

The Template Tag get_gallery only retrieves the gallery specified which you can put in a variable. You can then use that data to construct the gallery.

I think I'll introduce another Template Tag display_gallery that will output all the HTML for you which you can style yourself and another one called style_gallery that will include a stylesheet and maybe one for Javascript called script_gallery.

TASKS

• Multiple File Upload
• Drag & Drop Upload
• Click & Drag Ordering
• Image File Cleanup (Doesn't delete thumbnail files yet)
• i18n
• Python Packaging
• Tests

DESIGN DECISIONS

• No complicated relationships with models
• All thumbnails are squares
• Minimal Requirements
• Thumbnails are generated manually through a management command generate_thumbnails which may also be activated via a link in the galleries admin page.