[omaha] Static vs media files in django

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

How many images are you thinking?
Some Generalizations:
  * The fewer folders the better.
  * never use supplied names for file names
  * keep images out of a database unless the DB is designed for it
specifically(most are not)
  * your categories will fall woefully short, I'd recommend a folksonomy
over a taxonomy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

more specific but still incomplete:
 * an image table
 * each image file named by the _id of the instance
 * store image type in the table
 * store uploaded by
 * store uploaded when
 * a category/tag table
 * an m-n relationship between image and category/tag (many to many)


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks.  How about organizing the files - eventually they will be tagged to
> make it simple for users to find images and add them to new cards.  Should
> I put all the images in one folder or categorize them with sub-folders?
> Or even put the images in a database?
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com
> >wrote:
>
> > If you don't not need to distinguish between the images you supply and
> user
> > upload images then yes.
> > caveat: If some subset of the images are not for cards but for the site
> in
> > general, I'd put that subset in static.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Using Django 1.7 building a flashcard app.  Currently I have about 1000
> > > images - one per card, and images can be used on multiple cards.  Later
> > on
> > > users may be able to upload images also.  Django seems to have 2 basic
> > ways
> > > to serve static files - Static and Media.  From what I gather static is
> > for
> > > css, logos, and other admin created files, and media is for user
> uploaded
> > > content.?
> > >
> > > I am thinking Media is the way to go?  If you have any other
> suggestions
> > on
> > > handling images please chime in.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Steve
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