How do I upload multiple files with Django?
Someone has already created a multi-upload field that might serve your purposes.
http://scompt.com/archives/2007/11/03/multiple-file-uploads-in-django
Django has great support for building forms and working with file uploads. I would read through these articles to better understand how the multi-upload field code works.
After a lot of pain I eventually got uploadify (http://www.uploadify.com/) working with django, but the problem wasn't really django's, but getting it to work with Apple Mac's; browsers on that platform don't serve the cookies from within Flash; you need to set them manually:
So I include these in my render-to-reponse:
return render_to_response('files_upload.html', {
'session_cookie_name': settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME,
'session_key': request.session.session_key
And present them from uploadify via the configuration laid down in the template:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#fileInput').uploadify({
'scriptData': {'{{session_cookie_name}}': '{{session_key}}'},
I've seen this done better with a decorator over the view, but this was the dirty hack I put in middleware to copy the POST into COOKIE before the session middleware runs to restore the session.
class FakeUploadCookieMiddleware(object):
"""TODO: replace the hardcoded url '/upload' with a 'reverse'."""
def process_request(self, request):
if request.path == '/upload/' \
and request.POST.has_key(settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME):
request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME] = \
request.POST[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME]
logging.debug('Faking the session cookie for an upload: %s', \
request.POST[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME])