Question

I’m using django-registration for registration and login purpose. My Models and Forms.py are working fine. The problem is I want to store the currently logged user’s id in the user field of the following Model:

MALE = 1
FEMALE = 2
SEX_CHOICES = (
    (MALE,'Male'),
    (FEMALE,'Female'),
)

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    #user = models.IntegerField() # update : Changed to ForeignKey. 
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    gender = models.IntegerField(choices = SEX_CHOICES,null=True, blank=True)
    zip_code = models.CharField(max_length=100,null=True, blank=True)
    language = models.ManyToManyField(Category)

My ModelForm:

 class UserProfileForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = UserProfile
        widgets = {'language': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple}

Update 2: Here is my view:

def some_view(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
    form = UserProfileForm(request.POST)
    if form.is_valid():

        form.save()
else:
    form = UserProfileForm()

Update: I can get currently logged in user’s using {{ user.id }} in template. But now How do i pass this id to user field?

Answer 1

Well, in you view you can access the currently logged user via request.user.

Make this user initial data in your Form :

@login_required
def my_view(request):
    logged_user = request.user
    initial = {'user': logged_user}
    form = MyForm(request.POST or None, initial=initial)
    # Here your logical code
    # ...
    return HttpResponse(...)

And if you are using a ModelForm:

@login_required
def my_view(request):
    logged_user = request.user
    form = MyUserProfileModelForm(
                 request.POST or None,\
                 instance=logged_user.get_profile())
    # Here your logical code
    # ...
    return HttpResponse(...)

Note: get_profile() is a OneToOneField and may raise a DoesNotExist exception if your database is screwed (which may happen if you have tried different things here).