Re: What is the best way to extend the User Model

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Dave Fowler wrote: > Great, thanks guys!  Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing > anything. If some new 'official' method appeared, the documentation would update to reflect that: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-informatio

Re: What is the best way to extend the User Model

Great, thanks guys! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. On Apr 2, 8:46 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:29 -0700, Dave Fowler wrote: > > [...] > > > Profile.objects.all().select_related() > > > But it seems weird to base everything around the object tha

Re: What is the best way to extend the User Model

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:29 -0700, Dave Fowler wrote: [...] > Profile.objects.all().select_related() > > But it seems weird to base everything around the object that isn't > used for authentication. Is that what most people do? "Seems weird" isn't a particularly strong technical reason (and is

Re: What is the best way to extend the User Model

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Dave Fowler wrote: > > I'm about to do my umpteenth Django app and I'm just wondering if > there is a new standard (better) way to extend the User model. I've > used this method > > http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/06/django-tips-extending-user-model/ > > And