I am trying to register a user in django extending the auth module. I read from here and there and now I am all over the place and dont know what I am doing.
Initially what I wanted to do is register a user with information name, email, mobile and password. since mobile is not in the default django auth I tried to extend auth.
here is the code.
models.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
class CustomerUserProfile(models.Model):
mobile = models.CharField(max_length = 20)
user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
def __str__(self):
return "%s's profile" % self.user
def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
profile, created = CustomerUserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)
post_save.connect(create_user_profile, sender=User)
forms.py
from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from neededform.models import CustomerUserProfile
class CustomerRegistrationForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(required = True)
mobile = forms.CharField(max_length = 20)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('username','email','mobile','password1','password2')
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.core.context_processors import csrf
from neededform.forms import CustomerRegistrationForm
from neededform.models import CustomerUserProfile
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
def register(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = CustomerRegistrationForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
f = form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/registered/')
else:
args = {}
args.update(csrf(request))
args['form'] = CustomerRegistrationForm()
return render_to_response('User_Registration.html', args ,context_instance = RequestContext(request))
This code upon execution makes an entry in auth_user table and an entry in CustomerUserProfile but the mobile coloumn is blank always.
what else am I suppose to add in the code ?
PS. please can some one explain me what is this code doing
def create_user_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
profile, created = CustomerUserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=instance)
post_save.connect(create_user_profile, sender=User)
as I copied it from somewhere I want to know how this works actually.
Thank you.
