I'm using Django 1.2 and I want to have two user types (one for companies and one for consultants). I will either use an object in my model (something like a boolean for is_company or is_consultant) or Django's groups to distinguish them--depending on which is easier for this problem. I guess it wouldn't be much of a problem if I weren't a total noob ;)
I'm using django-registration for my authentication backend, and I will have a separate form on my webpage for each user type (company vs consultant). I don't think it is best to create two different views that are almost identical for the two cases, so I'm wondering what the best way is to identify/register the users who signed up as either of the two types.
Thanks for your help.
Do you want the user to pick if they are a consultant or company when registering? If so, you can create your own form by subclassing the RegistrationForm
and then passing your new form into the parameters for django-registration (Read the doc on how to do that.)
To subclass the form and add the additional field you would do something like so:
from registration.forms import RegistrationForm
USER_TYPES = (
('consultant', 'Consultant'),
('company', 'Company'),
)
class MyRegistrationForm(RegistrationForm):
user_type = forms.ChoiceField(choices=USER_TYPES)
From then, you should catch the signal and do as you need with the form data django-registration has great documentation
Hope that's what you were lookign for.
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