Best way to do register a user in Django

Question

I'm trying to implement User Registration for my Django app. The book I read mentions UserCreationForm but I need more than just name, password, and email address. I could implement my own user object and use ModelForm I think, but then I lose out on some of the django conveniences for authentication. Finally, I read something about UserProfiles which supplement Users I guess, so I think I need some combination of all of these things. Here's what I have so far.

View - this is simple enough. All I want to do here is create my form and save the user

def main(request):     rform1 = forms.RegisterForm1()     rform2 = forms.RegisterForm2()     return render_to_response("authentication/index.html", {'form1': rform1, 'form2':rform2})  def register(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         rform1 = forms.RegisterForm1(request.POST)         rform2 = forms.RegisterForm2(request.POST)         if rform1.is_valid() and rform2.is_valid():             new_user = rform1.save()             return HttpResponseRedirect("/register-success/")     return render_to_response("authentication/index.html", {'form1': rform1,'form2':rform2}) 

Form - this is my form for creating a user. Or the start of it at least

class RegisterForm1(forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = User  class RegisterForm2(forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = UserProfile 

Model - this is my UserProfile that I want to supplement User with.

class UserProfile(models.Model):     user = models.OneToOneField(User)     phonenumber = PhoneNumberField() 

Is it clear what I'm trying to do? Am I on the right track

Answer 1

Make two model forms, one for the User model and one for the UserProfile model.

class UserForm(django.forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = User    class UserProfileForm(django.forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = UserProfile         exclude = ['user'] 

Give them prefixes and display them together in the same HTML form element. In the view, check that both are valid before you save the User and then the UserProfile.

def register(request):     if request.method == 'POST':         uf = UserForm(request.POST, prefix='user')         upf = UserProfileForm(request.POST, prefix='userprofile')         if uf.is_valid() * upf.is_valid():             user = uf.save()             userprofile = upf.save(commit=False)             userprofile.user = user             userprofile.save()             return django.http.HttpResponseRedirect(…something…)     else:         uf = UserForm(prefix='user')         upf = UserProfileForm(prefix='userprofile')     return django.shortcuts.render_to_response('register.html',                                                 dict(userform=uf,                                                     userprofileform=upf),                                                context_instance=django.template.RequestContext(request)) 

In register.html:

<form method="POST" action="">     {% csrf_token %}     {{userform}}     {{userprofileform}}     <input type="submit"> </form> 

Answer 2

I was just looking into this, and found out that Django has a very simple built-in new user creation form, which you can use if you want simple registration -- there's no option to, eg, save an email address and validate it, so it won't work for the OP's use case, but am posting it here in case other come across this question as I did, and are looking for something simple.

If you just want people to be able to choose a username and password, then the built-ins will do everything for you, including validation and saving the new user:

from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm  urlpatterns = patterns('',     url('^register/', CreateView.as_view(             template_name='register.html',             form_class=UserCreationForm,             success_url='/'     )),     url('^accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),      # rest of your URLs as normal ) 

So the only thing you have to do yourself is create register.html...

More info here: http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/using-the-built-in-views-and-forms-for-new-user-registration-in-django.html