Re: Overwhelmed by File upload instructions

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:
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> > 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.
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> > This post seems most helpful:http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/02cf3d1a838e7e46
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> > 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.
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> > The model might look like this:
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> > 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()
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> > 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...
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> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> DR.

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