Yesterday, using this solution View an Image Using Django CreateView Before Submitting I was able to figure out how to display an image when a user clicks on the choose file button in my Django project. However, I can't figure out how to now save the image when the user submits the form. I realize the solution I am using is leveraging the HTML URL to display the image using Javascript.
When I am using an approach for the use to attach an image and then submit the form without displaying the image first, this works fine. However, when I use the solution referenced above, it is not capturing the image.
This works...
<div>
<h2>Photo: </h2>
</div>
<div>
{{ form.image }}
</div>
However, when I try to leverage this instead....from the prior solution...
<input type='file' onchange="readURL(this);" />
<img id="blah" src="#" alt="your image" />
And using Javascript...
function readURL(input) {
if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
$('#blah')
.attr('src', e.target.result)
.width(150)
.height(200);
};
reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
}
}
The file displays, but I can't figure out how to save it to the database upon user submit.
I tried to use various solutions documented here...Django: add image in an ImageField from image url But no luck so far. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
