How to update user profile in Django

Question

I want to let my student to update his profile after he logged in, but I don't seem to be able to code the profile update properly. This is my code:

 class User(AbstractUser): pass class Student(models.Model): user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, primary_key=True) name = models.CharField(max_length=30, null=True, blank=True, default=None) surname = models.CharField(max_length=50, null=True, blank=True, default=None)

 <form method="POST" action="{% url 'profile_edit' %}" class="" > {% csrf_token %} {{ form.as_p }} <button type="submit">Save</button>q </form>

 def profile_edit(request): user = request.student form = StudentForm(request.POST or None, initial={'name': user.name, 'surname': user.surname}) if request.method == 'POST': if form.is_valid(): user.student.name = request.POST['name'] user.student.surname = request.POST['surname'] user.save() return HttpResponseRedirect('index') context = { "form": form } return render(request, "registration/profile_edit.html", context)

Answer 1

The error 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute 'name' says that current user is not authenticated. You can make your view available only for authenticated users with login_required decorator:

@login_required
def profile_edit(request):
    pass

Also User model dont have name attribute, you need to access user's student attribute to get it:

form = StudentForm(request.POST or None, initial={'name': user.student.name,
                                                  'surname': user.student.surname})

Answer 2

I like this workaround a little bit more, you still need the login_required decorator.

In your models.py add

User.student = proberty(lambda p: Student.objects.get_or_create(user = p)[0])

Then in your views.py you can do something like:

student = request.user.student
if request.method != 'POST':       
    form = StudentForm(instance=student)

else:
    form = StudentForm(request.POST, instance=student)

Answer 3

This is the perfect answer for this question. Just paste in your views.py file, where you have handled your update profile.

    def handleUpdate(request, id):
if request.method == "POST":
    username=request.POST['username']
    email=request.POST['email']
    fname=request.POST['fname']
    lname=request.POST['lname']

    if len(username)<8:
        messages.error(request, "Your username must not be under 8 characters")
        return redirect('home')

    if len(username)>10:
        messages.error(request, "Your username must not be more than 10 characters")
        return redirect('home')

    myuser=User.objects.get(pk=id)
    myuser.first_name=fname 
    myuser.last_name=lname
    myuser.email=email
    myuser.username=username
    myuser.save()
    messages.success(request, "Your account has been updated successfully")
    return redirect('home')

Remember
1. email, fname & lname are the names of the form fields. Ensure that you put your form fields name.
2. return redirect('home') is defined in the urls.py as views.home . Ensure that you have replaced it with your views before running it.

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The url for it in urls.py

 path(r'user/updateProfile/<int:id>', views.handleUpdate, name="handleUpdate")

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The form's sction for it :

 action="/user/updateProfile/{{request.user.id}}" method="POST"

Remember : user.id only works when a user is logged in