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| author | Karen Tracey <kmtracey@gmail.com> | 2009-05-17 18:45:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Karen Tracey <kmtracey@gmail.com> | 2009-05-17 18:45:25 +0000 |
| commit | a6a0b29318e437de1f97329e6a5490d62fb36d3d (patch) | |
| tree | d1edc44082f73b5ff82acd80f06e0eafbb0a9a2f | |
| parent | b2d2aba77e40522a53619c0d3fa055b6c10beef6 (diff) | |
| download | django-a6a0b29318e437de1f97329e6a5490d62fb36d3d.tar.gz | |
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.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10816 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt b/docs/topics/http/file-uploads.txt index 931c1073e8..428b390a2f 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:: |