[ale] Django expertise?

John Anderson sontek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 19:06:11 EDT 2010


>
> Ok, I'm trying to build up a website, and was going to create a suer
> table in teh DB when I found the Django
> User class.  My big question is:  are there any reasons not to use the
> User class for my user table?  I've seen the
> tutorial that mentions setting up a relationship to the User table for
> storing the app-specific data, so I know that it's
> doable, but is it wise?  Are there issues that might make me wish I
> had used my own table?
>


Use the table provided and create a custom UserProfile for app
specific data: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#storing-additional-information-about-users



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