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authorMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-04-25 06:38:23 +0000
committerMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2007-04-25 06:38:23 +0000
commit939f678e6542949e3befd83437d58860b9abac34 (patch)
tree28f8587cbf42b13f05c6d42787bd5ba2915ce114 /docs
parent56b8914eb968ad49d3a15a98cec65fec849e1227 (diff)
Fixed #3857 -- Used a table to describe the required arg for FileField. This
makes it consistent with other argument descriptions. Thanks, whiteinge. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5066 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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-rw-r--r--docs/model-api.txt23
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/model-api.txt b/docs/model-api.txt
index b71668e37f..a14c469661 100644
--- a/docs/model-api.txt
+++ b/docs/model-api.txt
@@ -194,14 +194,23 @@ This doesn't accept ``maxlength``; its ``maxlength`` is automatically set to
``FileField``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-A file-upload field.
+A file-upload field. Has one **required** argument:
-Has an extra required argument, ``upload_to``, a local filesystem path to
-which files should be upload. This path may contain `strftime formatting`_,
-which will be replaced by the date/time of the file upload (so that
-uploaded files don't fill up the given directory).
+ ====================== ===================================================
+ Argument Description
+ ====================== ===================================================
+ ``upload_to`` A local filesystem path that will be appended to
+ your ``MEDIA_ROOT`` setting to determine the
+ output of the ``get_<fieldname>_url()`` helper
+ function.
+ ====================== ===================================================
+
+This path may contain `strftime formatting`_, which will be replaced by the
+date/time of the file upload (so that uploaded files don't fill up the given
+directory).
-The admin represents this as an ``<input type="file">`` (a file-upload widget).
+The admin represents this field as an ``<input type="file">`` (a file-upload
+widget).
Using a ``FileField`` or an ``ImageField`` (see below) in a model takes a few
steps:
@@ -246,7 +255,7 @@ visiting its URL on your site. Don't allow that.
A field whose choices are limited to the filenames in a certain directory
on the filesystem. Has three special arguments, of which the first is
-required:
+**required**:
====================== ===================================================
Argument Description