I found the problem. In my models file I had declared the model to have
uploadfolder='uploads/' Evidently this does not get overridden when I
declare the field in the SQLFORM.factory
On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 4:04:59 PM UTC-5, pumplerod wrote:
>
> It seems part of my error was in using the "/" before the "uploads/"
>
> This generates the correct path...
>
> os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads/')
>
>
>
> this does not...
>
> os.path.join(request.folder,'/uploads/')
>
>
> that said however. They each place the uploaded file into a root level
> uploads directory.
>
>
> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 3:53:29 PM UTC-5, pumplerod wrote:
>>
>> Well, I found the images. they are in the parent directory of
>> applications. meaning the root web2py directory. I'm not sure why. is
>> seems as though the os.path.join() is not actually building the correct
>> path. Perhaps request.folder() is not being called correctly?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 3:07:10 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>
>>> I am confused too. Given your form, it should go on the filesystem. You
>>> use a SQLFORM.factory, not a SQLFORM therefore there is no DB IO. Since you
>>> can download it it means you have the filename, you can try search for it.
>>> Perhaps the 'upload/' instead of 'upload' is creating a problem?
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:30:44 UTC-5, pumplerod wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've just gotten uploading an image file with SQLFORM.factory to work
>>>> (thanks to the posts here in this forum), but I have to admit I'm totally
>>>> confused.
>>>>
>>>> I specified the uploads directory in which to store the image
>>>>
>>>> SQLFORM.factory(db.auth_user,db.brands, Field('brand_logo', 'upload',
>>>> uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder, 'uploads/')))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The upload works, when I check the database, and select the file link,
>>>> the image file downloads. However, I can't find it anywhere in the
>>>> framework. There's nothing in the uploads directory. So is the image
>>>> being stored in the SQLite database?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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