Django: Setting up a user profile page?

Question

I'm still a novice and I'm not sure how I should setup the profile page for users. The django.contrib.auth.views.login will redirect to a accounts/profile page, but how should I actually set this up?

Is it common to just define accounts/profile in urls.py and have it redirect to a template or is it a more complex pattern?

django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template, {'template':'profile.html'}) where profile.html lives in PROJECT_ROOT/templates/profile.html and extends base.html?

More complete answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6085025/django-user-profile — ptim, May 23 '16 at 23:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '10 at 14:59

2

You can either set up a view/url that points to accounts/profile, or you can tell Django to redirect somewhere else after login by setting the LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL param in your settings.py.

edited Mar 09 '10 at 14:59

Dominic Rodger

97,747
36
197
212

answered Mar 09 '10 at 14:34

Adam

7,067
2
27
24

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '12 at 23:53

1

There are some reusable apps out there for handing common profile page functionality, take a look at https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-profiles/wiki/Home or http://code.google.com/p/django-profile/

answered Mar 03 '12 at 23:53

Sean O Donnell

1,429
1
12
11

Django: Setting up a user profile page?

2 Answers2