On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 04:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Playing on the latest SVN with newforms and FileFields, I was
> wondering if there is a built-in way to retrieve the base filename of
> a FileField.
> Currently in my templates, {{ my_model.my_filefield }} displays the
> uploaded filename appended to the value of 'upload_to', which I do not
> find very attractive. Say a user uploads file 'readme.txt', I would
> prefer to display 'render.txt', not 'uploaded_files/readme.txt'.
Unless you have some very special requirements, you don't want to
display the filesystem path at all. You should be looking to display the
URL associated with the file, which may or may not look like the file
path.
It sounds like you are looking for get_FOO_url(), which is documented in
db-api.txt and available automatically for all FileField and subclasses.
Even if you do want to display the file system path, I would recommend
making your model, in that case, return that path as the URL (since it's
how it is used in a template -- again, unless you are doing something
really unusual, in which case you're going to have to dive under the
covers anyway and it's definitely not an argument for a new helper
method).
Regards,
Malcolm
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