Want more info ? Create a profile model and tie it to the user in settings.py: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'profile.UserProfile'
Then you can use user.get_profile().phone_number for example. http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/06/django-tips-extending-user-model/ When i started using Django i made the mistake of wanting to go my way. Now, i compromise and go Django's Way. If you use Django, you are tied to Django's rules and the guys that made those are very clever. Now that i understood that, my code is way cleaner and easier to extend. On Nov 16, 4:02 pm, justquick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can the username be Null? > > From the help text on username attr: > "Required. 30 characters or fewer. Alphanumeric characters only > (letters, digits and underscores)." > > > What if it was 1,000,000 names, like if I was publishing a phone book? > > Then using the user model, which does keep track of a lot more > information than you need (username,email,etc.) and does not keep > track of information you do need (phone,address,etc.). You should > probably come up with your own model/storage mechanism for keeping > track of this data. > > On Nov 16, 9:54 am, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marty Alchin wrote: > > > My first question would be: Are you absolutely certain that none of > > > those 1000 other people will ever need a login? > > > anything is possible. > > > I would think at some point it isn't a good idea to use the User table. > > What if > > it was 1,000,000 names, like if I was publishing a phone book? > > > > Basically, if any of those users would ever need to be promoted to > > > login status, the User model is your best bet. As Samuel mentioned, > > > just set "is_active" to False and probably set the password field to > > > "!" since they wouldn't be expected to supply a password. As for > > > username, you can probably just make a slug out of their real name and > > > use that. > > > Carl K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
