I'm trying to figure out how to create my Custom User Model. In the official docs I basically found two different strategies: Extending User Model or Custom User Model: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model
Extending means I have a OnetoOne Relationship to the User Table in my own UserProfile Model, whereas the other method inherits from AbstractBaseUser and looks quite complicated with a lot of warnings that I can't not change this easily after I created my database. I want to design a web app where users can log in and once log in take some kind of surveys. For this I want to make use of Django's Authentication methods, so only registered and logged in Users can take part in the survey. However I want to save additional data for each User in the database, like Age, Country, Score and so on. In the Admin interface it would be great if I could just select a User Entry and see all fields, the default from the User Model plus my added fields. It might be a good idea to use OAuth later on as well, to be able to have users authenticate through Facebook and so on, however that is not required right now (I did create quick test project for the social auth plugin and it worked). Still I don't really understand the differences between those two methods and google didn't help me because most tutorials show either route but never say why one is better than the other. So which should I use in my case? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/bba38b2f-5924-495d-9043-a33ed52a4ec2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
