Source: 📖 Django for Professionals ch12 p177

Adding a media attribute to a model

We can add media attributes to models by using the field types ImageField and FileField. Before we do this, we need to make sure that we follow the steps in Configuring Django for media uploads for it to work.

# models.py

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class MyModel(models.Model):
	image = models.ImageField(upload_to='images/')

The upload_to argument tells Django where to save the uploaded image. In this case, it will save it to MEDIA_ROOT/images/ — MEDIA_ROOT is implicit, it is set up in the preliminary configuration steps. The directory images must also be created in the filesystem prior to this step.

Be sure to run makemigrations and migrate after updating your model.

After adding this to the model, the media is accessible to templates by using {{ model_instance.image.url }}.