Adding custom fields to users in Django

Question

I am using the create_user() function that Django provides to create my users. I want to store additional information about the users. I tried following the instructions given at

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users

but I cannot get it to work for me. Is there a step-by-step guide that I can follow to get this to work?

Also, once I have added these custom fields, I would obviously need to add / edit / delete data from them. I cannot seem to find any instructions on how to do this.

Answer 1

The recommended way is to create a new model and give it a OneToOneField() with the built-in User model like so:

class Student(models.Model):     user = models.OneToOneField(User)     college = models.CharField(max_length=30)     major = models.CharField(max_length=30) 

etc.

Then you can access the fields like this:

user = User.objects.get(username='jsmith') college = user.student.college