yashpatel-py/django_custom_user_model.md

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    Django Custom user model


Create virtual environment using python -m venv env


Activate virtual environment using command(for linux users) source .\env\bin\activate


Activate virtual environment using command(for windows users) .\env\Script\activate


Install django pip install django


Create project django-admin startproject <yourproject>


Go to project directory and create app python manage.py startapp account


In account folder go to models.py and write below code.


account/models.py

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin, BaseUserManager

class CustomAccountManager(BaseUserManager):
    '''
        to create ADMIN USER
    '''
    def create_superuser(self, email, username, first_name, last_name, password, **other_fields):
        other_fields.setdefault('is_staff', True)
        other_fields.setdefault('is_admin', True)
        other_fields.setdefault('is_superuser', True)
        other_fields.setdefault('is_active', True)

        if other_fields.get('is_staff') is not True:
            raise ValueError(_('Superuser must be assigned to is_staff=True.'))

        if other_fields.get('is_admin') is not True:
            raise ValueError(_('Superuser must be assigned to is_admin=True.'))

        if other_fields.get('is_superuser') is not True:
            raise ValueError(_('Superuser must be assigned to is_superuser=True.'))

        return self.create_user(email, username, first_name, last_name, password, **other_fields)

    '''
        TO CREATE Normal User
    '''
    def create_user(self, email, username, first_name, last_name, password, **other_fields):
        other_fields.setdefault('is_active', True)

        if not email:
            raise ValueError(_('You must provide an email address'))

        email = self.normalize_email(email)

        user = self.model(email=email, username=username, first_name=first_name, last_name=last_name, **other_fields)
        user.set_password(password)
        user.save()
        return user

class Account(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    username = models.CharField(max_length=150, unique=True)
    email = models.EmailField(_('email address'), unique=True)
    profile_image = models.ImageField(upload_to="profile_image/", blank=True)
    date_joined = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name="date joined", auto_now_add=True)
    last_login = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name="last login", auto_now=True)

    is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    objects = CustomAccountManager()

    USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['username', 'first_name', 'last_name']

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

    def full_name(self):
        return f"{self.first_name} {self.last_name}"

    def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
        return self.is_admin
    
    def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
        return True
account/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Account

admin.site.register(Account)
<project_name_folder>/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'account',
]

# your app_name.your_user_model_name ---> EG: class Account
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "account.Account"


Now open terminal and run command python manage.py makemigrations


After above command and run python manage.py migrate


In order to login in admin panel you need to create superuser and to create superuser run this command python manage.py createsuperuser and give your email and other information.


Now run the server by using python manage.py runserver


Now navigate to http://localhost:8000/admin/ and provide email and password