access MEDIA_URL in templates

[du...@habmalnefrage.de]

Hi all,

is it possible to get the value of MEDIA_URL from settings.py in the templates ?

Regards,
Dirk
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[limodou]

On 8/12/06, du...@habmalnefrage.de <du...@habmalnefrage.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> is it possible to get the value of MEDIA_URL from settings.py in the templates ?
>
> Regards,
> Dirk

You can pass it manually through Context, for example:

from django.conf import settings
...
return render_to_response("test.html", {'media_url':settings.MEDIA_URL})

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[James Bennett]

On 8/12/06, du...@habmalnefrage.de <du...@habmalnefrage.de> wrote:

> is it possible to get the value of MEDIA_URL from settings.py in the templates ?

You can write a template context processor, and use the
`RequestContext` subclass of the normal Context.

See the official documentation (and list of built-in context processors) here:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext

I've also written a tutorial which explains this in more detail, and
actually uses MEDIA_URL as the example:
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/06/14/django-tips-template-context-processors

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[du...@habmalnefrage.de]

Hi,

thanks for the hints, that exactly what I was looking for.

May I'm not the first who asked this question.
The solution maybe should be placed somewhere on the django-wiki ?
Or the context_processor.media_url should go into the django-distro ?

Regards,
Dirk
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[Bryan Chow]

+1 for James' excellent tutorial.

Here's the context processor that I use in most of my projects:
http://www.verdjn.com/wiki/Siteroot
http://www.verdjn.com/browser/verdjnlib/context_processors/__init__.py