I apologise for spamming everyone, here i stuck it up at dpaste with
the comments which makes it a bit clearer-
http://dpaste.com/96128/
On 4 Dec, 17:01, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I dont know why the margins are squashing everything, ill try and post
> my code again this time without the comments
>
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
> extraform = CustomProfileForm(request.POST)
> if form.is_valid():
> userformInstance = form.save()
> extraformedit = extraform.save(commit=False)
> extraformedit.user = userformInstance
> extraformedit.save()
> return HttpResponseRedirect("/")
>
> Hope that works a bit better.
>
> On 4 Dec, 16:57, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your help Brian, Im still quite confused. I think what Im
> > really not sure about is how to set the foreignkey manually as it
> > doesnt really talk about that in the documentation.
>
> > Here is what I have now, if extraformedit.user is a foreignkey, how do
> > i connect it to the form I just saved?-
>
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
> > extraform = CustomProfileForm(request.POST)
> > if form.is_valid():
> > userformInstance = form.save
> > () #save the form with the user data
> > and create an instance i can hook my profile to
> > extraformedit = extraform.save(commit=False)
> > #save the profile form with commit=false so i can modify it
> > extraformedit.user = userformInstance
> > #!!i think this is where im going wrong? assigning the user the
> > profile is attached to
> > extraformedit.save
> > () #save the edited
> > form to the database.
> > return HttpResponseRedirect("/")
>
> > Am I way off? Again I am very new to this so sorry if this is a stupid
> > question.
>
> > Phil
>
> > On 3 Dec, 18:52, Brian Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On Dec 3, 12:22 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > ...
> > > > And here is my view for my signup page -
>
> > > > def signup(request):
> > > > if request.method == 'POST':
> > > > form = UserCreationForm(request.POST)
> > > > extraform = CustomProfileForm(request.POST)
> > > > if form.is_valid():
> > > > form.save()
> > > > extraform.save()
> > > > return HttpResponseRedirect("/")
> > > > else:
> > > > form = UserCreationForm()
> > > > extraform = CustomProfileForm()
>
> > > > return render_to_response('signup.html', {
> > > > 'form': form,
> > > > 'extraform': extraform
> > > > })
>
> > > > This view doesnt work because it is not saving 'user' in
> > > > CustomProfileForm.
>
> > > > Ok now the problem I am having is with the foreignkey in the custom
> > > > profile model, and successfully linking that to the User.
>
> > > Yes. You need to set the user foreign key inside the extraform before
> > > you save it. See the discussion here about ModelForms save() with
> > > commit=False:
>
> > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#the-sav...
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