[Answer]-Acess User information from a form

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In this case you can also extend the default user creation form

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class DriverRegistrationForm(UserCreationForm):
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=200)

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ("username", "phone", "password1", "password2")
👤Teisman

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Your user details are stored in the User class in django’s default django.contrib.auth.models. This means that the values of “username” and “password” that you want the user to enter are stored separately in that User table in the database but is related to your custom Driver class.

I would not use forms.ModelForm in this scenario but I would instead use forms.Form instead.

Like this:-

from django import forms

class DriverRegistrationForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField(label='Username')
    password = forms.CharField(label='Password', widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    phone = forms.IntegerField(label='Phone')
    mobile = forms.IntegerField(label='Mobile')

In your view function that handles the submission of this form instance, you will now have 4 values coming in from your form.cleaned_data dictionary.

You can then handle the creation of your user object because your have a username and password in your form.cleaned_data dictionary.

Once you have your user object, you can now create your Driver object by assigning:-

def register_driver(request):

    form = DriverRegistrationForm()

    if request.method == 'POST':

        form = DriverRegistrationForm(request.POST or None)

        if form.is_valid():
            cd = form.cleaned_data

            # Creating your user object
            user = User.objects.create_user(username=cd['username'], password=cd['password'])

            # Creating the driver object that is related to your user object above.
            Driver.objects.create(user=user, phone=cd['phone'], mobile=cd['mobile'])

   #  .... Finish your view function
👤Calvin Cheng

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try

{{ form.instance.user.username }}
👤Віктор Ковтун

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