your user_image is a reference to the id of the images table: you're the
one choosing to have it instead of the image itself on the auth_user table.
You have to deal with your model and your requirements making your own
profile update/insert page, dealing with all the things you explained .
On Monday, September 9, 2013 9:50:40 PM UTC+2, Apple Mason wrote:
>
> I created a custom profile view so that the user can create/update his
> profile. Currently I have something like:
>
> models/db.py:
>
> db.define_table('images',
> Field('image', 'upload', requires = IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IMAGE()))
>
> auth.settings.extra_fields['auth_user'] = [
> Field('user_image', 'reference images', requires=IS_NULL_OR(IS_IN_DB(db
> , db.images.id)))
> ]
>
>
>
> controller/default.py:
> def user():
> return dict(form=auth())
>
>
>
> view (for editing):
>
> {{=form.custom.begin}}
> ...
>
> <span> Your Image: </span>
> {{=form.custom.widget.user_image}}
> {{=form.custom.end}}
>
> The problem is {{=form.custom.widget.user_image}} will render a dropdown
> of all image ids that are in the images table. Instead, I want a file
> upload, so that the user can change the image and it will be reflected in
> the database. How would I change the form to do this?
>
> Also, since an image doesn't initially exist for a user, web2py will have
> to first do the insert into the image table, and then update/insert it to
> the auth_user table. The other problem is if a user decides to change his
> user picture, then web2py has to deal with deleting the old picture in the
> database *and *on the filesystem.
>
> How can I handle these problems in web2py?
>
>
>
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