Why don't you set 'images/' as a variant.then you can change it dynamically
2008/4/23, Rishabh Manocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Yea, I don't think the method I described would work for directories
> (or at-least I can't figure out how). It does, however, work if you
> want to add something to a filename before saving it. The code I use
> is:
>
> request.FILES['resume']['filename'] = request.POST['empid'] + "_" +
> request.FILES['resume']['filename']
>
> Best,
>
> R
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:52 PM, PENPEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > How do you mean of changing request.FILES there itself?
> > I tried to add the directory to request.FILES but failed. Django
> > ignored the directory and savethe image to the MEDIA_ROOT not
> > MEDIA_ROOT/images.
> >
> >
> > class Thing(models.Model):
> > photo = models.ImageField(
> > upload_to='images/', blank=True, null=True)
> >
> >
> > class ThingForm(ModelForm):
> > class Meta:
> > model = Thing
> >
> > def thing_add(request):
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > if 'photo' in request.FILES:
> > request.FILES['photo']['filename'] =
> > ''.join(['test/',request.FILES['photo']['filename']])
> > form = ThingForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > form.save()
> > else:
> > form = ThingForm()
> >
> > return render_to_response('iuv.html', {'form': form})
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 21, 3:19 pm, "Rishabh Manocha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I don't know if this answers your specific question, but this is
> being
> > > worked on, apparently -http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5361.
> > >
> > > I had a similar requirement, where I wanted to dynamically append a
> > > model field to the filename before saving it. I ended up getting the
> > > model field's value from request.POST in the view, and changing
> > > request.FILES there itself.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > R
> > >
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:45 PM, PENPEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I defined such a model:
> > >
> > > > class Thing(models.Model):
> > > > photo = models.ImageField(
> > > > upload_to='images/', blank=True, null=True)
> > >
> > > > Here is the form for this model:
> > > > class ThingForm(ModelForm):
> > > > class Meta:
> > > > model = Thing
> > >
> > > > Now it could handle the image upload request and save images to
> > > > MEDIA_ROOT/images/ directory.
> > >
> > > > My question is how to change theupload_tovalue dynamicly in the
> >
> >
> > > > view. For example, I can get the user name in the view level, and I
> > > > want to save the image to that user's directory, e.g. 'avatar/
> > > > username/'.
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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