It would really help to know some more about your setup. Eg, are you
using a form generator, using newforms "by hand" or are you making it
all the "artisan" way, coding the html yourself?
Maybe post a bit of your view code and the relevant template / form
bits.
~ Chris
El mié, 16-04-2008 a las 03:55 -0700, sparky escribió:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a slightly unusual requirement: I want to use a FileField in a
> form but with a TextField in the model. (The content being uploaded is
> a big bit of flat text, but I want to store it in the database, not as
> a file.)
>
> The problem is that with the code that I have together the
> request.FILES parameter is empty, so the form fails validation, any
> suggestions as to where I'm going wrong, thanks.
>
> sparky
>
> the form:
> class SubmissionForm(forms.Form):
> title = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
> description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)
> content = forms.FileField(widget=forms.FileInput)
>
>
> the model:
>
> class Submission(models.Model):
> """
> Submission model
> """
> creator = models.ForeignKey(User)
> created_datetime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
> title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> description = models.TextField()
> content = models.TextField()
>
>
> The view code:
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = SubmissionForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
> if form.is_valid():
> s = Submission(creator=request.user,
> created_datetime=datetime.datetime.now(),
> title=form.cleaned_data['title'],
> description=form.cleaned_data['description'],
> content=form.cleaned_data['content'])
>
>
> the template:
>
> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="." method="POST">
> <table>
> {{ form.as_p }}
> </table>
> <p><input type="submit" value="Submit"></p>
> </form>
>
> >
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