I am sure django is powerful and quite useful. The applications in “contrib.” package are very tempting.Especially the tools for generating rss and atom feed.But django is not free from problem. It just isn’t effective enough. It lacks a bit on creating
boundary pushing models effectively. Is it possible to use sphinx for our documentation is this tool compatible with django? I have read some where piston is very useful in creating API’s. Is it so?

Hi Alon,

What is the python-level code for creating users' profiles? In the shell, whenever I type "p=User.objects.get(username='xxxx').get_profile" followed by "p.attribute1", I receive a "'User' object has no attribute 'attribute1'.

Any suggestions for creating the profile to make sure this attribute "registers"? Thanks!

Thank you for your explanations but what's the way to create a new custom user then ?

I guess I should first create the "normal" user (using User.objects.create_user(,,)) and then the extended one using the foreign key to the newly created user. When I'm using the shell to do it, I've got an error with the first command that the first of
my custom field is required…

Hello.

I have created user profile, but what about the additional table "maApp_userprofile" in my database ? The DatabaseError (1146, "Table 'myApp.myApp_userprofile' doesn't exist") is occurs. And "manage.py syncdb" does nothing. How this table must be created
?

Thanks for the useful post!  Where I am still stuck is trying to figure out how to create test users through a command.  For example, if I have an app:

accounts

    models.py

    management

         commands

               mycommand.py

and I follow your lead in models.py:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True)
    age=models.IntgerField(blank=True)
    display_name=models.CharField(max_length=150)

User.profile = property(lambda u: UserProfile.objects.get_or_create(user=u)[0])

What would I put in mycommand.py to create a test user with a username of Bob, no age given, and a display name of Bob Smith?  So far, everything I have tried han't actually resulted in the UserProfile which is attached to the user actually being updated
in the database.

Thanks,

William

Hey, (sorry for my english :-( )

Thanks for this posts !

I want to add the Field 'Bureau'  the user.

I do the same things in your post ;)

But I don't have the field 'Bureau' in the back-end of the site ??!!

Hi Alon,

I got rid of the user models I built before and am now relying on the built in user model.  I built an app called msgboard that has the following model:

The only problem with this is that there is no profile caching like with get_profile().  So if you were to do something like…

    user.profile.some_field = some_value

    user.profile.save()

the user profile would not be updated!

What do you think of the ForienKey approach in combonation with a "User" post_save creation of the "UserProfile"? The following app is pluggable and takes care of all of that for you.

Mind you that the UserProfile class still needs to be created by developers and the delete() method on the UserProfile has to be updated to delete any non-user FK, M2M … etc.

This the ForienKey approach recommended by James Bennette the release manager of Django. 

https://github.com/un33k/django-bootup/blob/master/README

Hello!

I'm building Django app on top of an existing database (MS SQL). I have to access some existing data in that database, so as a UserProfile model I've used an exitsting table. Everything works as expected, but using MSSQL and Apache on Windows drives me to
a lot of problems so I decided to move to Linux + Apache + Postgres database – MyApp specific models will be handled by postgres database, but I still need to have access to for example MSSQL UserProfile table. Is there any way to do that? No success till
now :-(

Regards

Szubi

in urls.py:

(r'^settings/$', user_settings),  
    (r'^settings_changed/$', direct_to_template, {'template':'form_changed.html',
    'extra_context':{'message':'Settings has been changed','next':'/settings/'}}), 

Somewhere in views.py:

@login_required
@csrf_protect
def user_settings(request):
    c = {}
    c.update(csrf(request))
    user = request.user
    profile = user.profile
    if request.method == 'POST': # If the form has been submitted...
        form = UserprofileForm(request.POST,instance=profile) # A form bound to the POST data
        if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass
            form.save()
            # Process the data in form.cleaned_data
            # ...
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/settings_changed/') # Redirect after POST
    else:
        user = request.user
        profile = user.profile
        form = UserprofileForm(instance=profile) # An unbound form
    return render_to_response('settings.html', locals(),context_instance=RequestContext(request))

In models.py:

class UserprofileForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = UserProfile
        fields = ('show_thumbnails','interface','style') #put fileds You want user to edit here

    def clean(self): # add custom validation here
        cleaned_data = self.cleaned_data
        interface = cleaned_data.get("interface")
        st  = cleaned_data.get("show_thumbnails")
        .........
        if field_interface_does_not_pass_validation_rules:
                # We know these are not in self._errors now (see discussion
                # below).
                msg = u"Invalid input blah blah!!"
                self._errors["interface"] = self.error_class([msg])

                # These fields are no longer valid. Remove them from the
                # cleaned data.
                del cleaned_data["interface"]

        # Always return the full collection of cleaned data.
        return cleaned_data

settings.html:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}Title text{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
 
{% if form.errors %}
<p class="error">Invalid input</p>
{% endif %}
<form method="POST" action="/settings/">
{% csrf_token %}
<table class="entryTable">
<tbody>
{{ form.as_table }}
<br><br>
<tr><td class="buttons" colspan="2">
<input type="button" class="button" value="Cancel" onclick="location.href='/0/';"/>
<input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit"/>
</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
{% endblock %}

That all ;-)

Szubi

Hello Alon and THANK YOU!!!

If I found this post last week it would have saved me about 5 days worth of coding and trobleshooting–THANK YOU!

I am new to Django and I am trying to set up a view that uses a reverse lookup in a url.  How can I pass the the User's ID number to a url so the user moves from one form on his account (User Information) to another form on his account where he inputs information
directly related to his account? 

#views.py

def regPage(request):
    form = RegForm(request.POST)
    # Save new/edited pick
    if request.method == 'POST' and form.is_valid():
        form.save()
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('league_page', args=(), kwargs={ 'id' : id }))
        #return HttpResponseRedirect('/dev/leaguepage/')
    user_info = UserRegistration.objects.all()
    context = {
        'form':form,
        'user_info' :user_info,
    }

    return render(request, 'regpage.html', context)

def leaguePage(request, id):

    form = LeagueForm(request.POST or
None instance=id and LeagueRegistration.objects.get(id=id))

    # Save new/edited pick

    if request.method == 'POST'
and form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect('/draft/') league_info = LeagueRegistration.objects.all() context = {

        'form':form, 'league_info' :league_info,

} 

    return render(request,
'leaguepage.html', context)

#urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns('',

  

    #url(r'^leaguepage/$','acme.dc_django.views.leaguePage'),

    url(r'^user/(?P<id>d+)/$','acme.dc_django.views.leaguePage', name="league_page"),

    url(r'^$', 'acme.dc_django.views.regPage'),

)

Please not the above code doesn't work.  This is the code I have been troubleshooting.

Thank you,

dp