A fully featured drop-in replacement of placehold.it for Django
Project description
A fully featured drop-in replacement of placehold.it for Django
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Features
Everything placehold.it does
Identical URL structure
Improved font rendition and vertical text alignment
Installation
Install from PyPi:
You can pip install the app directly from GitHub:
$ pip install git+git://github.com/stevelacey/django-placeholdit.git#egg=DjangoPlaceholdit
Alternatively, you can install from PyPi:
$ pip install django-placeholdit
Add django_placeholdit to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
# ...
'django_placeholdit',
)
Add django_placeholdit routes into your urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns(
# ...
url(r'^placeholders', include('django_placeholdit.urls', namespace='placeholdit')),
)
Configuration
The following options can be configured in your settings.py:
PLACEHOLDIT_CACHE_SECONDS # Number of seconds to cache placeholders. Defaults to 86400 * 7 (a week)
Usage
In templates:
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=160 %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=240 height=160 text='Custom dimensions' %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=160 text='Custom text!' %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=160 background='F77A00' color='fff' text='Custom colors!' %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=240 height=80 background='fbd206' color='fff' text='Automatically' %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=240 height=80 background='fbd206' color='fff' text='scaled!' %}">
<img src="{% url 'placeholdit:placeholder' width=160 background='93C663' color='3F740E' text='gif/jpeg/png' format='jpg' %}">
Resulting in:
<img src="http://example.com/placeholders/160"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/240x160&text=Custom%20dimensions"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/160&text=Custom%20text%21"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/160/F77A00/fff&text=Custom%20colors%21"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/240x80/fbd206/fff&text=Automatically"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/240x80/fbd206/fff&text=scaled%21"> <img src="http://example.com/placeholders/160.jpg/93C663/3F740E&text=gif/jpeg/png">
Contributing
Feel free to fork django-placeholdit on GitHub! I’d love to see your pull requests.
