Question

I’m using django. I want a user to upload an image for a user post, but I’m not sure the backend of this. Should I setup a db with the url of the image, a folder for the user, a folder inside of the post, and the image finally in that folder? What is the best (fastest, efficient, nonconfusing) way of doing this?

Answer 1

You can use the built in django ImageField. This essentially is set up to store and reference a url relative to a media dir on the webserver.

There is a pretty basic example here.

EDIT:
For your own implementation outside of django most people would implement it in a similar way to how Django’s imagefield works. Basically, you story a reference to a file in a filesystem somewhere, and store the actual file on the filesystem.

You can store the actual image in the database but I think most people prefer to not store it in the database. This stackoverflow question has a lot of info about why one would want to do it one way or another. I myself have done this both ways and like storing them in the filesystem more than in the database in most cases.