50% solved - I passed request.FILES into the form's constructor as indicated below:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/http/file-uploads/ I then accessed the file as follows: attachment = request.FILES['attachment'] Only problem left is to figure out why the form is posting twice. ideas please? Thanks. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a contact form that is supposed to save a message as well as a file > upload. When I use the admin site, I can save a contact record with a file > upload of any type. > > However, saving from the 'front end' of my web application causes some > strange behaviour - the file is not uploaded, and the contact record is > saved twice as seen from the admin site. > > > My code is as follows: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BEGIN > CODE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *html template:* > > <form action=".#contact-form" method="post" > enctype="multipart/form-data">{% csrf_token %} > <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > width="100%"> > <tr> > <td align="right" valign="top"><label>Message</label></td> > <td>{{ form.message }}</td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td align="right" valign="top"><label>Upload File:</label></td> > <td>{{ form.attachment }}</td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" > value="Submit Request" /></td> > </tr> > </table> > </form> > > *view*: > > @csrf_protect > def contact_us(request): > form = form_capture(request) > return render_to_response('front_end/standard_pages/contactus.html', > {'form': form, }, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > *the form_capture function (extra module named functions.py - keeps all my > custom functions)*: > > def form_capture(request): > if request.method == 'POST': > form = ContactForm(request.POST) > if form.is_valid(): > message = form.cleaned_data['message'] > attachment = form.cleaned_data['attachment'] > form.save() > else: > form = ContactForm() > return form > > *the form (forms.py):* > > class ContactForm(ModelForm): > class Meta: > model = Contact > message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols': 60, > 'rows': 10, 'class': 'mceNoEditor'})) > attachment = forms.FileField(required=False, widget=forms.FileInput()) > > *the Contact model (models.py):* > > class Contact(models.Model): > > message = models.TextField(max_length=500) > attachment = models.FileField(upload_to='attachments', blank=True) > > def __unicode__(self): > return self.message[:10] + '...' > > class Meta: > verbose_name_plural = "Contact Messages" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------END > CODE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Any ideas why saving a record from the contact form posts twice, and why > the file attachment is not uploaded? > > Thanks! > -- > Regards, > Sithembewena Lloyd Dube > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
