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Handy tag for generating URLs to media files

Author:
amr-mostafa
Posted:
April 21, 2007
Language:
Python
Version:
.96
Score:
5 (after 5 ratings)

Returns an absolute URL pointing to the given media file.

The first argument is the path to the file starting from MEDIA_ROOT. If the file doesn't exist, empty string '' is returned.

For example if you have the following in your settings:

MEDIA_URL = 'http://media.example.com'

then in your template you can get the URL for css/mystyle.css like this:

{% media 'css/mystyle.css' %}

This URL will be returned: http://media.example.com/css/style.css.

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from django import template
from django.conf import settings

register = template.Library()

class MediaURLNode(template.Node):
	def __init__(self, path):
		self.path = path

	def render(self, context):
		import urlparse
		import os.path
		if os.path.exists(os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, self.path)):
			return urlparse.urljoin(settings.MEDIA_URL, self.path);
		return ''

#@register.tag
def media(parser, token):
	"""
		Returns an absolute URL pointing to the given media file.

		The first argument is the path to the file starting from MEDIA_ROOT.
		If the file doesn't exist, empty string '' is returned.

		For example if you have the following in your settings:

		MEDIA_URL = 'http://media.example.com'

		then in your template you can get the URL for css/mystyle.css like this:

		{% media 'css/mystyle.css' %}

		This URL will be returned: http://media.example.com/css/style.css.
	"""
	bits = list(token.split_contents())
	if len(bits) != 2:
		raise TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag takes one argument" % bits[0])

	path = bits[1]
	return MediaURLNode(path[1:-1])
media = register.tag(media)

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Comments

ubernostrum (on April 23, 2007):

This is a bit easier if you use the simple_tag decorator.

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