On Jul 8, 12:57 pm, justin jools <justinjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank for your quick response Daniel.
> I'm just confused about using media_url with generic views, I have
> done it previously with:
>
> from django.conf import settings # for media_url
> media_url = settings.MEDIA_URL
>
> def dblist(request):
> obj_list_menu = dbModel1.objects.all()
> return render_to_response('products/dblist.html', {'make_list':
> obj_list_menu, 'media_url': media_url })
>
> but with generic views, have no views.py obviously, so I put it in
> settings.py:
>
> from django.conf import settings # for media_url
> media_url = settings.MEDIA_URL
>
> and in my base.html template:
>
> {{ media_url }}css/base.css
>
> but it's not picking it up? do i need to pass it with generic views?
But you don't need to set anything! As I said, generic views already
have access to MEDIA_URL, as long as you don't remove it from the list
of installed context processors. So I don't know why you want to
define another variable called "media_url". Just use the existing
upper-case one.
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