yes, you have to set db.workspace.filefield.uploadefolder='/somewhere/'
On Apr 23, 2:40 pm, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this possible? to put on db the files of a folder? > > def list_of_files(): > import os > > storedfiles=db(db.workspace.id>0).select(orderby=db.workspace.droppedfile) > files = os.listdir('/home/dan/Docs') > for files in files: > db.workspace.insert(filefield = > db.workspace.droppedfile.store(files,filename='test.pdf')) > return dict(storedfiles=storedfiles,form=form) > > On Apr 22, 8:48 pm, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Perfect. Will try. Thanks again! > > > Dan > > > On Apr 22, 4:51 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Most of it is done in the Field.store() method in sql.py. In fact you > > > can do > > > > db.mytable.insert(filefield=db.mytable.filefield.store(stream,filename='original_filename.txt')) > > > > On Apr 22, 3:27 pm, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > wow thats rough!! over 3,000 lines of coding. thanks!! :-) > > > > > On Apr 22, 4:07 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Take a look at welcome/controllers/default.py->def download > > > > > > Andhttp://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/sqlhtml.py#291 > > > > > > Andhttp://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/sql.py#2667 > > > > > > Andhttp://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/sql.py#2694 > > > > > > Andhttp://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/sql.py#3292 > > > > > > I think there are a couple more locations too... specifically web2py > > > > > will rename the file to something safe.... > > > > > > -- > > > > > Thadeus > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:54 PM, greenpoise <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > My question is, which controller takes careof the upload field in > > > > > > web2py??? Web2py makes it easy to upload a file but I want to know > > > > > > how it does it so I can write a function based on it. > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > dan > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Subscription > > > > > > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/subscribe?hl=en
