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| author | Karen Tracey <kmtracey@gmail.com> | 2009-05-17 18:47:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Karen Tracey <kmtracey@gmail.com> | 2009-05-17 18:47:32 +0000 |
| commit | efbe48cfcb98c7e0c15d47f40ad48058f3121198 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f700669c964d759cce3d143ade92196d4f7d78d /docs | |
| parent | 65966cebd34b171f5156d7334dd9793906d5897c (diff) | |
[1.0.X] Fixed #10400: Added a note in the file uploads doc about the correct form type needed for file uploads to work. Thanks claudep and timo.
r10816 from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.0.X@10817 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt b/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt index aebdc32a31..4a9340474d 100644 --- a/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt +++ b/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ is a dictionary containing a key for each ``FileField`` (or ``ImageField``, or other ``FileField`` subclass) in the form. So the data from the above form would be accessible as ``request.FILES['file']``. +Note that ``request.FILES`` will only contain data if the request method was +``POST`` and the ``<form>`` that posted the request has the attribute +``enctype="multipart/form-data"``. Otherwise, ``request.FILES`` will be empty. + Most of the time, you'll simply pass the file data from ``request`` into the form as described in :ref:`binding-uploaded-files`. This would look something like:: |