Discussion on: Create Advanced User Sign Up View in Django | Step-by-Step

Hello coderasha,
I have tried most of the websites where I could look for an answer, but I didn't get any. Since I am new to web development, so not able to debug the issue properly. I have scratched every part of my head with no luck. I hope you would help me.

My website workflow is as below:

1) user sign up and redirect to login screen once registration successful.
2) user login and now he/she sees a form, where he/she needs to fill in mandatory fields
3) save and then either click on "profile" link(in the navbar) to see the profile data, or "save" button will redirect to the profile page automatically.

what's working:

• Registration page
• login page
• user successfully able to fill in the extra information
• redirect to the logged in user's profile page.
• Data getting saved in DB.

What's not working:
The profile page that is getting generated for logged in user has the data showing up for default User model, i.e(first_name, last_name, and email). However, the other information like (dob, photo, country, state) etc, is not getting populated on the profile page.

What I have tested already.
I learned that "request.user.model_name" will help to populate the information. So, for that I have to create signals. I have done that as well, but no luck.

Errors:

RelatedObjectDoesNotExist at /profile/
User has no userprofile.
Request Method: GET
Request URL: 127.0.0.1:8000/profile/
Django Version: 3.0.5
Exception Type: RelatedObjectDoesNotExist
Exception Value:

User has no userprofile.
Exception Location: C:\Python38\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\fields\related_descriptors.py in get, line 420
Python Executable: C:\Python38\python.exe
Python Version: 3.8.2
Python Path:

['C:\Users\anshu\djago-project\SkoolSkill',
'C:\Python38\python38.zip',
'C:\Python38\DLLs',
'C:\Python38\lib',
'C:\Python38',
'C:\Python38\lib\site-packages']

Server time: Sun, 3 May 2020 15:48:15 +0000

So, to test further I used "request.user"(at this point signal or no signal, the data comes for those 3 fields). So, as said, only few fields populate the data from DB, but the custom fields doesn't

Below are my django files details:

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib import messages
from .forms import SignUpForm, UserProfileForm
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt

def login_user(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
username = request.POST['username']
password = request.POST['password']
user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
if user is not None:
login(request, user)
messages.success(request, f'login success')
return redirect('bolo')
else:
messages.error(request, f'error while login, please try again')
return redirect('login')
else:
return render(request, 'authenticate\login.html', {})

def userprofileview(request): # Authenticated user filling the form to complete the registration
if request.method == 'POST':
form = UserProfileForm(request.POST, request.FILES)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
messages.success(request, f'Profile has been updated successfully')
return redirect('/profile')
else:
messages.error(request, AssertionError)
else:
form = UserProfileForm()
return render(request, 'authenticate\bolo.html', context={'form': form})

@login_required
def profile_page(request): # Fetching data from DB to show user's complete profile page
form = UserProfileForm()
data = request.user.userprofile
context = {'form': form, 'data': data}
return render(request, 'authenticate\profile.html', context)

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
path('', home, name='home'),
path('contact/', home, name='contact'),
path("login/", login_user, name='login'),
path("logout/", logout_user, name='logout'),
path("register/", register_user, name='register'),
path("bolo/", userprofileview, name='bolo'),
path('profile/', profile_page, name='profile'),
]

models.py

from django.db import models
from django.urls import reverse
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
Photo = models.FileField(upload_to='documents/%Y/%m/%d/', null=True)
uploaded_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, null=True)
dob = models.DateField(max_length=20, null=True)
country = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
State = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
District = models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=10, null=True)

def get_absolute_url(self):
    return reverse('profile', kwargs={'id': self.id})

profile.html

        <p>Photo:</p>
        <p><img src =` {{ form_data.image.url }}` width="200" height="200" /></p>
        <p>email:`{{ data.email }}`</p>
        <p>fname:`{{ data.first_name }}`</p>
        <p>lname:`{{ data.last_name }}`</p>
        <p>DOB:`{{ form_data.dob }}`</p>
        <p>Country: `{{ form_data.country }}`</p>
        <p>State: `{{ form_data.State }}`</p>
        <p>District: `{{ form_data.District }}`</p>

signals.py

from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.dispatch import receiver
from .models import UserProfile
+

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_profile(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
UserProfile.objects.create(user=instance)

@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_profile(sender, instance, **kwargs):
instance.userprofile.save()

apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig

class AuthenticationConfig(AppConfig):
name = 'AUTHENTICATION'

def ready(self):
    import AUTHENTICATION.signals

I will be very grateful to you if you could help me out.
Thank you