So I've had a hard time creating users with the in-built UserCeationForm in django mostly because of the help text for password1 field so I tried looking into it critically get work my way around it. After much trial, I was able to get it done so that's what I'll be sharing with you guys today.
I'll believe you already have a little knowledge of django so I won't be starting from the very basics. I've created my project and named my app as myapp.
I'll start by creating a forms.py file where we'll be creating our custom user registration form.
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
# get the current user model
User = get_user_model()
class CustomUserForm(UserCreationForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields["password1"].help_text = ""
class Meta:
model = User
# add needed fields
fields = ["username", "email", "password1", "password2"]
Once this is done, go into your views.py file and add the following
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from .forms import CustomUserForm
def register(request):
form = CustomUserForm()
# handle form submission
if request.method == "POST":
form = CustomeUserform(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return redirect("/path-to-redirect-to/")
return render(request, "register.html", {"form": form})
Once these are done, you can style the form using django-crispy-forms. For now, that will be all.
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