Uploading image from Imagefield in django

Question

I am new to Django.I have the following code on my html file:

{% load staticfiles %}
<form method="post"> {% csrf_token %}
<input type="file" name="file">
<button>Submit</button>
</form>
{{file}}
<img class="hl" src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}photos/abc.png" /></a>
<img class="hl" src="{% static 'blog/images/sec.png' %}" /></a>

and my views.py for the above code is:

if request.method == 'POST':
        if 'file' in request.POST:
            f = request.POST['file']
            a = MyUser(email="frt@wer.com", date_of_birth=date.today())
            a.photo.save('somename.png', File(open(f, 'r')))
            a.save()
            context = {'file': f}
            return render(request, 'home.html', context)

Now browsers do not return the absolute path of the file from user's local device, it just gathers filename because ofsome security issues but a.photo.save('somename.png', File(open(f, 'r'))) this part of my code needs absolute path of user local device that is something like /home/abc/Pictures/sec.png all i get is sec.png and hence i am unable to upload.

From python manage.py shell:

>>>a = MyUser(email="frt@wer.com", date_of_birth=date.today())
>>>a.photo.save('somename.png', File(open('/home/abc/Pictures/sec.png', 'r')))
>>>a.save()

This works fine. Is there some workaround. I dont want to use Form.

Answer 1

I would suggest that if you want to allow for a file upload that you use a File form rather than a workaround. A simple and very succinct example can be found here:

Need a minimal Django file upload example