How to update an ImageField in Django - django

Question

I am making a website and would like to make it possible for each user to upload and update his own profile picture.
The update-profile template loads perfectly fine. I can update all the other fields, except for the image field. It can only be updated from the /admin page, but not from the update-profile page.
This is my image field in the Profile model:
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
dob = models.DateField(default=datetime.date(1989, 12, 25))
gender = models.CharField(max_length=12, choices=GENDER_CHOICES, default='Unspecified')
city = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='Braşov')
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='profilepics', blank=True)
Here is my ProfileForm:
class ProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ('dob', 'gender', 'city', 'image')
This is the html template:
{% block body %}
<form method="post">
<div class="container">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ user_form.as_p }}
{{ profile_form.as_p }}
<button type="submit">Update</button>
Cancel
</form>
</div>
{% endblock %}
And this is the update_profile view:
#login_required
#transaction.atomic
def update_profile(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
user_form = UserForm(request.POST, instance=request.user)
profile_form = ProfileForm(request.POST, request.FILES, instance=request.user.profile)
if user_form.is_valid() and profile_form.is_valid():
user_form.save()
profile_form.save()
messages.success(request, ('Your profile was successfully updated!'))
return redirect('myprofile')
else:
messages.error(request, ('Please correct the error below.'))
else:
user_form = UserForm(instance=request.user)
profile_form = ProfileForm(instance=request.user.profile)
return render(request, 'filter/updateprofile.html', {
'user_form': user_form,
'profile_form': profile_form
})
Thank you very much for reading!

Answer 1

Add the attribute enctype to your form tag in your html document enctype="multipart/form-data"
See this question
Django ModelForm Imagefield Upload
And as is documented in w3schools
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_enctype.asp