On Feb 16, 3:13 pm, Sander <sander.garret...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm kinda new to Django, and just finished reading the Django book. > Now I was wondering the following when it comes to user management. > > In the Django documentation I found that storing additional > information is acomplished by writing a new model and add a foreign > key to the user. > Then in the settings file add a reference to the model by adding: > AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'app.UserProfileModel' > > So far, so good. But now I want to have two (or more) user types on my > site with each their additional info. lets say I have a user > representing a Teacher wich I want to store the additional info 'age, > gender, experience_years' AND a user representing a student which I > want to give the additional info 'student number, class'.
I solved this using a BaseProfile model and specific "user type" models inheriting from BaseProfile. It can be a bit of a PITA sometimes - you'll have to do stuff like user.get_profile().student.student_number or user.get_profile().teacher.gender - but it works. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
