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.