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Its readonly and I don't want it to be a modelchoice so displaying it as textfield would be better

Then you should exclude it from the form entirely and just display it in your template.

ohh.. I see. If ever I should implement autocomplete in the future do you have suggestions like what modules to look at?

There's a number of apps or snippets out there, just google django autocomplete.

thank you mattmcc

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Hey all. I am having some difficulty with a model form. Whenever I open the modelform's page, it appears to correctly load the model and instantiate the form, but it doesn't have any of the form data filled in. If I view it in debug, I can see the model has data in all the fields. I am using the same process on another page and it seems to work just fine. Not sure what I'm missing. https://dpaste.de/C1pf

Delizin: how are you rendering the form in your template?

oh wait. it might help if i read what you pasted first

Delizin: You're passing an empty request.POST to the form when the request method isn't POST.

^ yep

request.POST or None

Well, it'll never have a value in that case, so just AgentForm(instance=agent)

Aha! Thank you guys. I knew it was something I had to be overlooking

oh youre right

There is one other issue with that form. The inappropriately named PictureUrl field is actually an ImageField, but it doesn't seem to be updating properly.

You're missing an enctype for the form.

There we go. Perfect. Thanks mattmcc

^ so many smart people in here. im thankful for them all.

^ didnt mean for that to sound smartassy if it id

did*

Hmm I threw in enctype="multipart/form-data" in my form. I can see it sending the image properly, but it's still not being saved by the modelform

Oh, yeah, and you need to pass request.FILES to the form.

I suppose that makes sense heh

Much better. I am almost done with this project and eager to move onto my next

Delizin: awesome. is this your first django project?

No, but it might still look like it. I had a huge project I finished a couple months ago. Everything works bug free on it, but my coding was terrible heh

I had an aversion to modelforms after a bad first experience and ended up doing all my forms by hand

and to make it worse I mixed tons of presentation code in my views instead of doing it in the templates

hah. all code you wrote 6 months ago is bad code

PHP background?

mattmcc: Not a huge one, but yes

I'm getting IOError: decoder zip not available when I try to upload a jpeg

I have Pillow installed

I read on SO that I need to install zlib1g-dev and libjpeg-dev before installing PILLOW

does anyone know anything about that?

OwlFace: pillow relies on a number of C libraries to do the heavy lifting

if you have them installed, it will compilesupport for them

it's all shown in the output when you install pillow

if you don't have those -dev packages installed, it will just disable support for those formats

okay

i'm going to try to install those two things

should I uninstall pillow first ?

you will need to reinstall pillow, yes

someone should redo pillow using ctypes

i should sudo pip install zlib1g-dev right ?

right

this has the output I'm talking about -- http://prateekvjoshi.com/2014/04/19/how-to-inst...

look for : PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY

okay

when i sudo apt-get libjpeg-dev it says invalid operation libjpeg-dev

i installed zlib1g-dev already

ugh pillow

i *always* have issues with both that and PIL

can i try installing one of these http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libjpeg-dev

instead

i don't know what else im supposed to do

OwlFace: well, from the actual error you described I suspect it's a PNG with a .jpeg filename

however, you need to "apt-get install zlib1g-dev" ... loks like you forgot the "install"

okay and i just reinstalled Pillow and it says JPEG support available

and a bunch of things that are not available like zlib freetype2 webp

but i dont know what any of those things are

well, png relies on zlib

you were right it was a png