What about a cookie to hold info until they sign up. Then use the identity module?
Problem with the latter is redoing all the work the identity module does for you. The identity module has an id that it assigns each user when they sign up. You can create your own table(s) and objects as you need to retain your own information, referencing the ID the identity module created for you. On Jul 29, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Toby Watson wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm looking for the right way to go about doing the following: > > I'd like to have casual visitors to my site represented by a real > User object so that I can treat them uniformly in joins, and other > relations with the rest of the models' objects. > > So I expect to have something like this: > > class User(SQLObject): > display_name = StringCol(length=50,default="Guest") > status = StringCol(length=1,default='G') # G/Guest, U/User, ... > > # other fields, email, password, etc > > > So I need to create a default guest object when a user first hits the > site and associate it with a visit. > > When someone logs-in I need to find their real user object, associate > it with the visit, and delete their old guest object. > > On logout I need to do the reverse, or something similar. > > On signup I need to take their guest object, change its' status and > add in any new information - email, password, etc. > > I've dug about in the visit and identity plugins? but I'm not sure if > I can be clever with the existing ones, or if I should replace the > default with my own identity derivative. I'm tending towards the > latter, but would appreciate any advice on the finer points of my > model - most derivatives just seem to deal with authentication > variants. > > Any suggestions? > > Loving tg BTW. > > Thanks, > Toby > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
