Multiple Users

[Focus Ifeanyi]

I am new to Django and trying to create an App with two User Types (Freelancers and Customers). I understand how to create a User profile Class and it works well for me:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='')
    country = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='')
    website = models.URLField(default='')
    phone = models.IntegerField(default=0)

def create_profile(sender, **kwargs):
    if kwargs['created']:
        user_profile = UserProfile.objects.create(user=kwargs['instance'])


post_save.connect(create_profile, sender=User)

This works well for me on a one user type user. But now I am building an app with 2 types of users (freelancers and customers), what is the best approach to get this done. Both users will have different view and info. Should I:

• Create 2 different apps, and repeat the normal registeration and login for each.
  
• If I do the above, hope the freelancers when logged in won't access customers view.
  
• How do I add user type to the user profile if I decide to use one app and model for it.  Please I need a step by step beginner approach, or a link to relevant source. Thanks.

[Lekan Wahab]

##This is one approach.
You can have a single user profile and a number of other users tied to the user profile via ForeignKey.

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
    #define general fields

class Freelancer(models.Model):
    profile = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile)
    #freelancer specific  fields

    class Meta:
        db_table = 'freelancer'

class Customers(models.Model):
    profile = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile)
    #customer specific fields 

   class Meta:
        db_table = 'customer'

Another approach(which i don't think is the best) would be to have a single UserProfile but with a table that identifies the type of user you have.
Something like this:

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='')
    country = models.CharField(max_length=100, default='')
    website = models.URLField(default='')
    phone = models.IntegerField(default=0

)
    
    ##The user type would be boolean and 0 by default. 0 could be a freelancer and 1 a Customer or the other way round.
    ##So, based on the type of user you're creating, you could just set a new value for user_type.
    user_type = models.BooleanField(default=0)

###This method would come in handy if both users have exactly the same features.
###But I'd rather go with the first method.

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