Extending the Django user model
Some good tips on extending the Django user model at The B-List:
Because of the auth system’s popularity, though, one of the most common questions people ask about Django is “how do I extend the User model?” By default, users have a small but useful set of fields which take care of most common use cases, but there are plenty of times where it’d be extremely handy to be able to add just a few more to suit a particular application’s needs.
Cool.
June 20th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
[...] Last week The B-List talked about extending the Django user model. This week James documents how Django processes a request: Simon Willison once wrote such a document, but it was a fairly high-level view and a fair number of things have changed since then, so I’m going to take a stab at it myself, and hopefully the result will be comprehensible. [...]
June 26th, 2006 at 9:01 am
This is a great lead, as I was just thinking about doing this for the user pages of my blog. I decided to deal without it for now while I investigate it and figure out best practices. The solution linked to is basically what I was thinking about, and it’s awesome to see it seems to be the general concensus.. at least for now.
June 26th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Hi Andrew, glad you liked the link.
July 5th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
[...] The B-List has really been doing some outstanding writing when it comes to Django. Previously covered topics include extending the Django user model and how Django processes requests. [...]