26Apr/090
Django gravatar tag
This short tutorial shows how to create a gravatar tag in a Django application.
Gravatar is an useful application that lets you to associate an avatar to your email address.
So you can show the same avatar in a large number of web sites without configure it every time.
First of all, we need to write the python code an register the “gravatar” tag:
from django import template
import urllib, hashlib
register = template.Library()
def gravatar(email, size=80):
gravatar_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?"
gravatar_url += urllib.urlencode({
'gravatar_id':hashlib.md5(email).hexdigest(),
'size':str(size)})
return """<img src="%s" alt="gravatar for %s" />""" % (gravatar_url, email)
register.simple_tag(gravatar)
import urllib, hashlib
register = template.Library()
def gravatar(email, size=80):
gravatar_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?"
gravatar_url += urllib.urlencode({
'gravatar_id':hashlib.md5(email).hexdigest(),
'size':str(size)})
return """<img src="%s" alt="gravatar for %s" />""" % (gravatar_url, email)
register.simple_tag(gravatar)
Then we can use the new gravatar tag in all templates page, by simply typing:
{% load gravatar %}
{% gravatar user.email 70 %}
{% gravatar user.email 70 %}
