Question

I have a model with this field:

image=models.ImageField(upload_to='company-category')

company-category is a folder in uploads folder,but I want to upload images to template directory .I think this way users that visit my website can’t access images and download them.

in settings:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    "C:/ghoghnous/HubHub/Theme"
)

how can I do this?

Answer 1

Here I’m giving two solutions. The one you asked and then my suggestion.

Use the following code to set the upload location to your templates folder.

from django.conf import settings

image=models.ImageField(upload_to = settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS[0])

The above code will upload image to your template directory.

My Suggestion:

Upload images to your media folder. Then use the MEDIA_URL to allow users to download them. Use the following code to define them.

settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/ghoghnous/HubHub/media'
MEDIA_URL  = 'site_media'

urls.py

from django.conf import settings
urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
)

models.py

class SampleModel(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(upload_to = 'images')

If you use this, the images will be uploaded to the folder C:/ghoghnous/HubHub/media/images/. Then get your required images by using objects.get or objects.filter.

record = SampleModel.objects.get(id = 1)

If I print record.image, the output will be images/filename.jpg.
Pass this to your template. Then you can display the image or give download link as follows:

<a href="{{ record.image.url }}/" >Download</a>        #Download link
<img src="{{ record.image.url }}/" />                  #To display image
<a href="/site_media/images/file.jpg" >Download</a>    #Download static files

I suggest you using the second method, since saving images in templates folder is not adviced.