opening new file within controller and uploading to uploads?

[aetag...@gmail.com]

I would like to open and write to a new file after accessing form variables passed from views...

I've been trying to find a similar problem, but not much luck ..

I suppose I can create another table with tempfile field of type uploads, and then do a database controller within the controller..

However I am wondering if there is an alternative way, where I just create the file object and send it to the uploads folder?


Thank you

[Anthony]

Check this section of the book: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#More-on-uploads

Rather than opening an existing file, you can create a file-like object via cStringIO.

Anthony