Cannot upload an image in django using ImageField - django

Question

I am writing my first django app that uses the ImageField and I am having
difficulty. The problem is that my images are not uploading. I have looked at
as many examples that I can find. And I'm not sure what's going wrong here.
I am trying to verify that my photos are uploading by looking in the location
of the upload_to directory. When the form is displayed in the web page the
correct upload file button is displayed. When I hit submit, the code below executes,
but no images are ever uploaded.
Based on the upload_to, I am expecting to see images uploaded to see images under either:
myproject/photos or myproject/media/photos correct?
Am I doing anything obvious wrong here? How do I get my images to upload?
--------------settings.py-------------
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/me/django_projects/myproject/media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
--------------model.py-------------
class Person(models.Model):
lastName = models.CharField(max_length=20)
firstName = models.CharField(max_length=20)
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='photos', blank=True, null=True)
# save executes but no image is saved.
# Because images are uploaded along with a new entry, I needed a special
# work around to get the self.id
def save(self):
for field in self._meta.fields:
if field.name == 'image':
if self.id is not None:
#save image now
field.upload_to = 'photos/%d' % self.id
else:
#Save image later
saveImageLast = True
super(Customer, self).save() # should create self.id if not already
if saveImageLast == True:
field.upload_to = 'photos/%d' % self.id
super(Customer, self).save()
print "save complete" #prints, but no image ...?
--------------forms.py-------------
class PersonForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Person
fields = ( 'lastName', 'firstName', 'image' )

Answer 1

from django documentation, i think this can help (in the past this helped me):
Firstly, in order to upload files, you'll need to make sure that your
element correctly defines the enctype as "multipart/form-data"
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="/foo/">

Answer 2

In your view where you create an instance of the form with post data, ensure you have provided request.FILES
form = PersonForm(request.POST, request.FILES)

Answer 3

This is a bit late, but 'upload_to' is not a method. It's an attribute that represents the relative path from your MEDIA_ROOT. If you want to save an image in the folder 'photos' with the filename self.id, you need to create a function at the top of your model class. For instance:
class Person(models.Model):
def file_path(instance):
return '/'.join(['photos', instance.id])
image = models.ImageField(upload_to=file_path)
Then when you are actually saving your image you would call:
person = Person(firstName='hey', lasteName='joe')
person.image.save(ImageObject.name, ImageObject)
More on the image file objects here.
More on upload_to here.