Reputation: 4800
I just started a Django project (there are no apps in it). I activated the admin
in settings file and can access the Django administration page. There is a column in Django page to add users; while adding users I get only three fields under personnal info, but I need to store some more information about users. I Googled around and found that I can use user profiles to accomplish this. I tried, but I am having problems.
My aim is to add three more fields to the user table:
I need details like: which function I need to write and where to do this.
I found this, but I do not know where I need to write these steps. I would greatly appreciate a more clear explanation of this.
Upvotes: 4
Views: 5153
Reputation: 2105
Django User Profiles is what you need. The blog you linked to has clear steps on how to do it. You can check out the Django documentation. http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/django-profile also provides a good explanation.
Basically you need to create a new model with User as ForeignKey and define the model in the settings.py
as AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = "django_app.your_profile_modelname"
. Create the profile and save it just like any other model, and access it using user.get_profile()
Adding a couple of things in response to your questions below:
First, do not create apps as a directory. Use startapp <appname> [destination]
as described here. That will create the app directory.
Second, you have to add the app to INSTALLED_APPS
in the project's settings file, do a syncdb
. Basically, follow the steps in Django tutorial on writing your first app.
Third, UserProfile
is a separate model. It is not an extension of User
. It is associated with the User
just because you added User
as the ForeignKey
.
Fourth, to be able to see the user profile model in admin, you do exactly what you would do to add any other model to admin page. Create a file names admin.py
under your app with:
from django.contrib import admin
from myproject.app.models import UserProfile
admin.site.register(UserProfile)
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 21032
There are three key concepts to understand:
auth
app which is really geared just to user login. You are expected to roll your own.User
as a foreign key (or, more properly, a one-to-one field as per the docs). You create it by creating a custom django app (traditionally called profiles
) and a model for that app (traditionally called UserProfile
, since Profile
is not allowed as a model name).The only thing that sets UserProfile
aparts as a model is that you specify it as the AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE
which means that it is accessible when called .get_profile()
on a User
record. That's it. If you set up the UserProfile
like so:
def UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, related_name='profile')
other fields
then you can also access the profile as user.profile
rather than user.get_profile()
which some people prefer.
Again, nothing magical about the profile model -- it is just a model record like any other model record.
If you want to be able to edit additional fields within the user form that's more complicated; easiest way is probable unregister User
and then register it again using your custom ModelAdmin
and form class but judging by your question you're probably not at that level yet.
Upvotes: 1