doktatech / gallery

An app for displaying my various categories of photos

Gallery

A web application that users can post photos on various categories.

By

• Rewel Kinyanjui

User stories

The user should be able to:

• View different photos that interest them.
• Click on a single photo to expand it and also view the details of the photo. The photo details must appear on a modal within the same route as the main page.
• Search for different categories of photos. (ie. Travel, Food)
• Copy a link to the photo to share with my friends.
• View photos based on the location they were taken.

Prerequisites

• Python3.6

Features In Gallery

• search functionality based on image description.
• Bootstrap image model and copy link button.
• Create and display photos based on categories
• Django admin dashboard for adding & managing images, categories and location
• Filter images based on category

Installation

To install, follow the following instructions;

    $ git clone https://github.com/Doktatech/Gallery.git
    $ cd Gallery
    $ python3.6 manage.py --without-pip virtual
    $ source virtual/bin/activate
    Install all the necessary requirements by running pip install -r requirements.txt (Python 3.6).
    $ ./manager.py runserver

Hot to Prepare enviroment variables

Since one needs a virtual enviroment, Create a virtual file and add the following configutions to it

    SECRET_KEY= #secret key will be added by default
    DEBUG= #set to false in production
    DB_NAME= #database name
    DB_USER= #database user
    DB_PASSWORD=#database password
    DB_HOST="127.0.0.1"
    MODE= # dev or prod , set to prod during production
    ALLOWED_HOSTS='.localhost', '.herokuapp.com', '.127.0.0.1'

Technology used

• Python3.6
• Django 1.11
• Heroku
• Bootstrap
• [HTML 5]

License ([MIT License]

This project is licensed under the MIT Open Source license, (c) Rewel Kinyanjui