I recently struggled with file transfers. After I was done I discovered django-filetransfers.
http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-filetransfers On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Rodion Raskolnikiv <noah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Soo easy... > Thanks for the tips! > I knew that there had to be a simple solution!! > > On Jul 8, 2:02 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: >> On Jul 8, 6:28 pm, Rodion Raskolnikiv <noah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Good morning! >> > I have been wanting to design a model (to be administered via the >> > admin area) which would allow for file uploads. I have not been able >> > to grasp a singular, simple approach to this. Perhaps things are >> > complicated by Django's preference for serving media files under a >> > different domain, but this is pretty crucial to my project and I was >> > hoping that someone could point me in the right direction. >> >> > This post seems most >> > helpful:http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/02cf3d1a838e7e46 >> >> > but I don't want to blindly copy it and end up with a batch system! I >> > am just looking to make a simple file uploader. >> >> > The model might look like this: >> >> > class UploadedFile(models.Model): >> > title = models.CharField(max_length=250) >> > file = forms.FileField() # I don't know if this is how to define >> > it >> > file_type = models.CharField(max_length=25) >> > date_created = models.DateTimeField() >> >> > I am a huge fan of Python and Django, and I am often surprised by how >> > simple and elegant the solutions are, my problem is usually that I am >> > trying to do things the difficult way... >> >> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! >> >> The documentation for file uploads is indeed complicated, but in order >> to enable file uploads in the admin you don't need to worry about any >> of that. >> >> However you seem to be trying to declare a form field within a model. >> You should of course use the models.FileField, which is fully >> documented >> here:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/fields/#filefield >> Note that the only thing you *need* to do is to set a value for >> upload_to. >> -- >> DR. -- 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.
