Gallery App in Django project

[bradford li]

I'm pretty new to Django and I thought, what better way to learn than to create your own website?!

I posted a question on Stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23534170/album-app-process-in-django

I want to create a Gallery App that would display a list of albums. These albums would have a thumbnail of the first picture. Once the album is clicked, the photos would be displayed on the same url. From what I've learned I think this requires an AJAX request. I'm pretty new to web development. =/ 

I know how to put an image onto a page however categorizing images and giving them properties and also display many of them at once without hard coding is something I have not learned yet. I need a bit of help doing this. I'm not sure of the process or best practices to do so. Any help is much appreciated thank you!!

[m1chael]

photologue may work for you.. i use it, and have customized it very
extensively for my needs

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[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:22 AM, m1chael <myk...@gmail.com> wrote:

photologue may work for you.. i use it, and have customized it very
extensively for my needs

+1. Very easy to customize and play with.  Does most of the functions needed of a photo-app.

[bradford li]

I want to do so without using an app because I feel that way I can really learn Django. Currently this is what I have in my models.py

from django.db import models

from django.contrib import admin

#from PIL import Images as PImage

import os

from PersonalWebsite.settings import MEDIA_ROOT

#def get_upload_file_name(instance, filename):

# return "uploaded_files/%s_%s" % (str(time()).replace('.', '_'), filename)

class Album(models.Model):

title = models.CharField(max_length = 60)

def __unicode__(self):

return self.title

def get_image_by_album(self):

images = []

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(os.path.join(MEDIA_ROOT, 'albums', self.title)):

mypath = os.sep.join(os.path.join(root, file).split(os.sep[4:]))

images.append(mypath)

return images

class Tag(models.Model):

tag = models.CharField(max_length = 50)

def __unicode__(self):

return self.tag

class Image(models.Model):

title = models.CharField(max_length = 60, blank = True, null = True)

#image = models.FileField(upload_to = get_upload_file_name)

tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag, blank = True)

albums = models.ForeignKey(Album)

width = models.IntegerField(blank = True, null = True)

height = models.IntegerField(blank = True, null = True)

created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

def __unicode__(self):

return self.image.name 

class AlbumAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    search_fields = ["title"]

    list_display = ["title"]

class TagAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    list_display = ["tag"]

class ImageAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

    search_fields = ["title"]

    list_display = ["__unicode__", "title", "created"]

    list_filter = ["tags", "albums"]

admin.site.register(Album, AlbumAdmin)

admin.site.register(Tag, TagAdmin)

admin.site.register(Image, ImageAdmin)

I'm not sure if my models.py is set up correctly. But I did the best i can =/ My "get_image_by_album" method walks through all directories in my albums directory to get the path of the image and appends them to a list called "images". That is how much I got done so far. I was thinking about setting up a simple admin interface as well to allow me to easily maintain the site. Not sure where to go from here though =/