Wherever you would reference a user instance, reference UserProfile.user
instead
If you need to find out a profile from request.user, you can use
request.user.get_profile() or the longer UserProfile.objects.get(user_id=
request.user.id)
Cheers,
André
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Brent <brentba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> How do I use a foreign key, though? In other words, how do I tell my
> code to look at UserProfile rather than just user?
>
> On Jul 10, 5:08 am, Jonas Geiregat <jo...@geiregat.org> wrote:
> > Op 10-jul-2011, om 12:37 heeft Venkatraman S het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >
> >
> > > This is not good design. If you want to store some extra fields for a
> User - i would define just another model called ProfileDetails, FK it to
> User and use it as such.
> >
> > That's also how I would do it, some example code to make it even more
> clear:
> >
> > from django.db import models
> > from django.contrib.auth.models import User
> >
> > class UserProfile(models.Model):
> > user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
> > url = models.URLField("Website", blank=True)
> > company = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True)
>
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