This tag makes it easy to have a random rotation of images on a page. Don't forget to set your MEDIA_URL.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | import os
import random
import posixpath
from django import template
from django.conf import settings
register = template.Library()
def is_image_file(filename):
"""Does `filename` appear to be an image file?"""
img_types = [".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif"]
ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
return ext in img_types
@register.simple_tag
def random_image(path):
"""
Select a random image file from the provided directory
and return its href. `path` should be relative to MEDIA_ROOT.
Usage: <img src='{% random_image "images/whatever/" %}'>
"""
fullpath = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, path)
filenames = [f for f in os.listdir(fullpath) if is_image_file(f)]
pick = random.choice(filenames)
return posixpath.join(settings.MEDIA_URL, path, pick)
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Comments
The latest os.path.join will make this version not compatible for running over Windows, since URLs always have forward slashes. Should be changed to use always a forward slash.
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Good point. I updated it to fix this, using
posixpath.join
(which works better for this example thanurlparse.urljoin
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I'm sure its possible, but I'm failing to grasp it right now. How can I get this snippet to grab only images of a specific size?
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ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1] + .lower()<br /> that could prevent missing from caps up exts.
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