Uploading image through an upload form to Django User profile - django

Question

I am trying to create a student register page that allows the student to upload a profile photo. I am using Django User model and a StudentProfile model that has a OneToOne relation with User. Here are my codes:
student\models.py:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class StudentProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE,)
avatar = models.ImageField(upload_to='student_profile/', null=True, blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.user.username
students/form.py:
from django import forms
class ImageUploadForm(forms.Form):
profile_photo = forms.ImageField()
eLearning/views.py:
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, get_user_model
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import LoginForm, RegisterForm
from students.forms import ImageUploadForm
from students.models import StudentProfile
User = get_user_model()
def register_page(request):
register_form = RegisterForm(request.POST or None)
photo_upload_form = ImageUploadForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
context = {
"register_form": register_form,
"photo_upload form": photo_upload_form
}
if register_form.is_valid():
# print(register_form.cleaned_data)
username = register_form.cleaned_data.get("username")
first_name = register_form.cleaned_data.get("first_name")
last_name = register_form.cleaned_data.get("last_name")
email = register_form.cleaned_data.get("email")
password = register_form.cleaned_data.get("password")
new_user = User.objects.create_user(
username, email, password,
first_name=first_name,
last_name=last_name,
)
if photo_upload_form.is_valid():
user = username
avatar = photo_upload_form.cleaned_data.get("profile_photo")
new_user_profile = StudentProfile.objects.create(user, avatar)
print(new_user)
return render(request, "auth/register.html", context)
auth/register.html:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
<div class="container">
<div class="row my-4">
<div class="col-5">
<form action="" method="post" class="form-control">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ register_form|crispy }}
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>
<div class="col-5">
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" class="form-control">
{% csrf_token %}
<input id="id_image" type="file" class="my-2" name="image">
{{ photo_upload_form|crispy }}
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endblock %}
I am facing 2 problems:
1) The ImageUploadForm is not rendering on to register.html
2) A StudentProfile is not being created. User is being created fine.
I also tried replacing form with ModelForm for ImageUploadForm but I get a NULL constraint for student_user since Django doesn't what user for StudentProfile is.
I have been looking through Stack Overflow. All solutions are about how to upload a user image to Django admin but I haven't found anything that shows how to associate the uploaded image to User model during registration. Forgive me if this is a repeated question. Thanks.

Answer 1

In your eLearning/views.py:
the context you are passing to the html page the _ is missing
context = {
"register_form": register_form,
"photo_upload form": photo_upload_form
}
This will be the reason for the ImageUploadForm is not rendering on to register.html
It's should be like
context = {
"register_form": register_form,
"photo_upload_form": photo_upload_form
}

Answer 2

So I figured it out. The real issue was with the register.html code. The submit button only worked for the register_form so the photo upload form was not validating, hence student profile entry was not being created. Here's the updated code:
eLearning/views.py:
from students.forms import ImageUploadForm
from students.views import upload_pic
def register_page(request):
register_form = RegisterForm(request.POST or None)
photo_upload_form = ImageUploadForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
context = {
"register_form": register_form,
"photo_upload_form": photo_upload_form
}
if register_form.is_valid():
username = register_form.cleaned_data.get("username")
first_name = register_form.cleaned_data.get("first_name")
last_name = register_form.cleaned_data.get("last_name")
email = register_form.cleaned_data.get("email")
password = register_form.cleaned_data.get("password")
new_user = User.objects.create_user(
username, email, password,
first_name=first_name,
last_name=last_name,
)
upload_pic(request, photo_upload_form, username=username)
return render(request, "auth/register.html", context)
students/views.py:
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect, HttpResponse
from .models import StudentProfile
from .forms import ImageUploadForm
def upload_pic(request, form, username):
if request.method == 'POST':
if form.is_valid():
User = get_user_model()
user = User.objects.get(username=username)
avatar = form.cleaned_data.get('profile_photo')
new_user_profile = StudentProfile.objects.create(user=user, avatar=avatar)
new_user_profile.save()
register.html:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% block content %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
<div class="container">
<div class="row my-4">
<div class="col-5">
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" class="form-control">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ register_form|crispy }}
{{ photo_upload_form|crispy }}
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-default" value="Submit">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endblock %}
You have to make sure enctype="multipart/form-data" is inside your tags or the image upload form will not get validated. I would also recommend adding an image validation method to your form.py. Something Sachin pointed out earlier: image form and validation. Hope this helps.