Django Placehold.it

A fully featured drop-in replacement of placehold.it for Django

Features

Everything placehold.it does
Identical URL structure
Improved font rendition and vertical text alignment

Installation

You can pip install the app from PyPi (recommended):

$ pip install django-placeholdit

or GitHub:

$ pip install git+git://github.com/stevelacey/django-placeholdit.git#egg=DjangoPlaceholdit

Add django_placeholdit to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'django_placeholdit',
)

Add the routes into your urls.py, feel free to customise the prefix or namespace, no trailing slash:

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.

seanmavley / django-placeholdit