django best approach for creating multiple type users

Question

I want to create multiple users in django. I want to know which method will be the best..

class Teachers(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User)
           


        

Answer 1

One approach I was following with Django 1.7 (works with 1.6 too) is to subclass AbstractUser

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

class User(AbstractUser):
    balance = models.DecimalField(default=0.0, decimal_places=2, max_digits=5)

To use your model you need to set it to be the one used for authentication in settings.py:

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'your_app.User'

Also note that you will now have to use settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL when referencing your new User model in a relation in your models.

from django.db import models
from django.conf import settings

class Transaction(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL) # ForeignKey(User) will not work