I am writing a new gallery webpage and I wanted to do this in Django instead of PHP which I have always used earlier. Problem is I am completely new to Django and thus, trying to get Uploadify to work with it is no easy task in terms of troubleshooting.

I found a short guide on these forums by amorris that gave some insight, but it didn't really get me "home safe". My page is currently triggering a javascript error saying "Uncaught TypeError: Object function (a,b){return new e.fn.init(a,b,h)} has no method 'cookie'.

This is currently my javascript to trigger the whole uploading process in my template for the upload page.

{% extends 'base/index.html' %}
{% block stylesheet %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}uploadify/uploadify.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ STATIC_URL }}uploadify/jquery.uploadify-3.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#file_upload').uploadify({
swf: '{{ STATIC_URL }}uploadify/uploadify.swf',
uploader: '/upload/',
cancelImage: '{{ STATIC_URL }}uploadify/uploadify-cancel.png',
checkExisting: false,
postData: {sessionid: $.cookie('sessionid')},
auto: true
});
</script>
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<form>
<input type="file" name="file_upload" id="file_upload" />
</form>
{% endblock %}


In my urls.py I have a url pattern like so (the app-name is 'gallery'):

url(r'^upload/', 'gallery.views.upload',name='upload'),


The views.py file looks like this:

def upload(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
for field_name in request.FILES:
uploaded_file = request.FILES[field_name]

#writing the file into destination folder
destination_path = '/home/teioch/dev/knausbook/knausbook/media/gallery/pictures/%s' % (uploaded_file.name)
destination = open(destination_path, 'wb+')
for chunk in uploaded_file.chunks():
destination.write(chunk)
destionation.close()

#indicate that everything is OK for SWFUpload
return HttpResponse("ok", mimetype="text/plain")
else:
#show the upload UI
return render(request, 'gallery/upload.html',{})


Amorris' sollution required the use of middleware as well which looks like this in a file swfupload.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

class SWFUploadMiddleware(object):
def process_request(self, request):
if ((request.method == 'POST') and
(request.path == reverse('gallery.views.upload')) and
request.POST.has_key(settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME)):
request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME] = request.POST[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME]


In settings.py this middleware has been registered by inputing:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
[...]
'gallery.swfupload.SWFUploadMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
)


After loads of Googling and what not I get the impression that it shouldn't be too hard to get this working, but I just don't have a good enough grasp on Django to see it myself yet.. Anyone got any pointers to this? Anything obvious (or less obvious) I'm doing wrong that you can see? Things I should check and/or look more closely at?