I'm trying to create a custom form where the user can also enter his name for instance but I am facing an issue, when the registration is done the name is not saved and I can't show it on the template.
here is the code
views.py
def register_user(request):
if request.user.is_authenticated():
return HttpResponseRedirect('/user/')
else:
if request.method == 'POST':
form = MyRegistrationForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect('/user/')
context = {}
context.update(csrf(request))
context['form'] = MyRegistrationForm()
return render(request, 'register.html', context)
forms.py
class MyRegistrationForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
name = forms.CharField(required=True)
class Meta:
model = User
fields = {'name', 'username', 'password1', 'password2', 'email'}
def save(self, commit=True):
user = super(MyRegistrationForm, self).save(commit=False)
user.email = self.cleaned_data['email']
user.name = self.cleaned_data['name']
if commit:
user.save()
return user
register.html
<form action="/user/register/" method="post" id="register" autocomplete="off">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="fieldWrapper">
{{ form.name.errors }}
{{ form.name.label_tag }}
{{ form.name }}
</div>
[... other form fields ...]
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Register"/>
</form>
So when I submit the form, everything works but when I try to show {{ user.name }} in the template, nothing is shown, why is that? (it works for the email field)
The default User object doesn't have a name field (so you are actually just saving the content of your name field to the object, and not the database). It has a first_name and last_name so you can either use those fields instead or you can customize the User model to have a separate name field
Edit
Also, just so you know, if you use the first_name and last_name fields instead, the User model has a get_full_name() method built-in which might be useful
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