django-awesome-avatar

===================== django-awesome-avatar

Django-awesome-avatar is a reusable application providing Avatar model field. It allows crop selected area before saving image.

Purpose

| Unlike django-avatar_ and django-upload-avatar_
| django-awesome-avatar_ uses:

• field in profile model instead creating model for saving images
• HTML5 File API instead hidden iframe AJAX for image preview
• easy customizable presence (any view and widget templates)

Install

To integrate django-awesome-avatar with your site, there are few things that are required:

#. Installing::

   pip install django-awesome-avatar

#. List this application in the INSTALLED_APPS portion of your settings file. Your settings file will look something like::

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        'awesome_avatar',
    )

Usage examples

with ModelForm

Add the AvatarField to your user or profile model::

from awesome_avatar.fields import AvatarField

class Profile(Model):
    user = OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
    ...
    avatar = AvatarField(upload_to='avatars', width=100, height=100)

Use model form usually way::

class AvatarChangeForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Profile
        fields = ['avatar']
    
def change_avatar(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = AvatarChangeForm(request.POST, request.FILES,
                                instance=request.user.profile)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/profile/')
    else:
        form = AvatarChangeForm(instance=request.user.profile)

    return render(request, 'template.html', {'form': form})
        

with Form

Define some model for saving images::

class Images(Model):
    image = ImageField(upload_to='images')
        

Use form field for cropping image::

from awesome_avatar import forms as avatar_forms

class UploadAndCropImageForm(Form):
    image = avatar_forms.AvatarField()

def upload_and_crop_image(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = UploadAndCropImageForm(request.POST)
            
        if form.is_valid():
            Images(image=form.image).save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/any/')
    else:
        form = UploadAndCropImageForm()

    return render(request, 'template.html', {'form': form})
        
    

Global Settings

Django's settings.py::

AWESOME_AVATAR = {
    'width': 100,
    'height': 100,
    
    'select_area_width': 400,
    'select_area_height': 300,
    
    'save_quality': 90,
    'save_format': 'png',
    ...
}
 

.. _django-avatar: https://github.com/jezdez/django-avatar .. _django-upload-avatar: https://github.com/yueyoum/django-upload-avatar .. _django-awesome-avatar: https://github.com/dimka665/django-awesome-avatar