Ionic Phonegap get image from phone and sent to user?

I am working with Ionic + Phonegap and sending to a Django server, and the code below correctly renders the image just taken on the iphone within the app itself on the iphone, but I can't figure out how to save the image on the server. I am sending the base64 representation of the image to the server, but am not sure how to save it on the server.

$scope.takePicture = function(){   
    var cameraOptions = {
        quality: 50,
        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL                
     };
    var success = function(data){
    $scope.$apply(function () {

           $scope.cameraPic = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + data;

        var myImg = $scope.cameraPic;
        var params = Auth.getUserCredentials();
        params['user_image'] = myImg
        Classify.classifyImage(params)
        .success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
        console.log(data);

        })
        .error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            console.log(data);
        })

     });
}

I tried the normal python write functions but none created a valid image in the end