If you want to add a profile for each user, check out http://scottbarnham.com/blog/2008/08/21/extending-the-django-user-model-with-inheritance/
the key in django is reusing existing "applications" maybe this might help http://code.google.com/p/django-messages/ On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Chris <caleb.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is my first Django experience and I'm having trouble figuring out > the right answer to the right relationship to have. (brain fart > maybe.. ) > I have a site that users have profiles and can message each other. So > my model looks like: > > class User(models.Model): > username = models.CharField(max_length=50) > password = models.CharField(max_length=50) > profile = models.ForeignKey(Profile) > > class Profile(models.Model): > username = models.CharField(max_length=50, primary_key=True) > sex = models.CharField(max_length=50) > location = models.CharField(max_length=100) > .... > > class Messages(models.Model): > sender = models.CharField(max_length=100) > to = models.CharField(max_length=100) > subject = models.CharField(max_length=100) > message = models.TextField() > date = models.DateTimeField() > > My question here is this a one-to-many relationship from Profile to > Messages? In that each profile has many messages or is it many-to-many > as each message has a sender and a recipient. Ultimately I want to be > able to easily pull the profile for the sender and recipient from the > message and from the User show their messages. > > -- > 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. > > > >--
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