Are you saying that the "user" entry in the Roommate model is not the user of the roommate that is described by first_name, last_name, etc. below, but that of the person's other roommate?
You may not be duplicating the *data* itself (that is, user.first_name is different from your first_name entry), but you are indeed duplicating the *structure* of the User model ( http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#users), which still falls within Bill's worry about your design. You would be best to represent the roommate as a user and then extend that to include any additional data you want by specifying the user's profile ( http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users ). Michael Schade On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, reduxdj <patricklemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, from my example, the model is called Roommate, so I am not > duplicating any User model data there... So all of the information > in that model has nothing to do the main user's email or other > properties. > > Thanks for helping, I still don't have an answer from the above. How > do > I access the current user's email and name? > > On Jul 20, 10:33 am, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You don't say what model this is. Since it doesn't exactly match > > django.contrib.auth.models, I'm going to guess that you may not > > be aware that the User model includes first_name, last_name, > > and email fields of its own. Having duplicated those fields, are > > you perhaps becoming confused about where to find things? > > The typical registration apps usually place this data in the User > > instance, so if you're looking for it in your instance, you would > > have had to arrange to copy it everytime something changes it > > in either model. > > > > Duplicating data in one-to-one models (if what I'm looking at is > > your profile model) isn't likely to win "best practice" accolades. > > > > Bill > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:08 AM, reduxdj <patricklemi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > HI, > > > > > So I tried for an hour or so to access the current user's first name, > > > so I can send out a personalized invitation email. That reads, "Hi > > > Sam, Your friend Charlie wants you to sign up here..." I understand > > > how to access the user info from context, but how do I do it from > > > inside one of my models with a user foreign key? > > > > > Now, what's funny is I don't know how to access the current user's > > > first name. I tried the following. > > > > > Thanks for the help! > > > > > Here's some code below. > > > > > user = models.ForeignKey(User) > > > first_name = models.CharField(max_length=200) > > > last_name = models.CharField(max_length=200) > > > email = models.CharField(max_length=200) > > > inv_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) > > > is_registered = models.BooleanField() > > > > > #def __unicode__(self): > > > # return self.user.username > > > > > def save(self, *args, **kwargs): > > > > > if send_mail: > > > User.get_profile = lambda self: > > > Profile.objects.get_or_create(user=self)[0] > > > current_site = Site.objects.get_current() > > > #subject = > > > render_to_string('roommate_invitation_subject.txt') > > > # Email subject *must not* contain newlines > > > subject = "Hello..." > > > subject = ''.join(subject.splitlines()) > > > message = render_to_string('roommate_invitation_email.txt', > > > {'invitee':self.first_name,'inviter': self.user.first_name,'site': > > > current_site }) > > > send_mail('Invitation to xxx', message, 'invite_...@xxx', > > > [str(self.email)]) > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Django users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
