Change user email in Django without using django-profiles

Question

In my Django application I would like the user to be able to change the email address. I've seen solution of StackOverflow pointing people to django-profiles. Unfortunately I don't want to use a full fledged profile module to accomplish a tiny feat of changing the users email. Has anyone seen this implemented anywhere. The email address verification procedure by sending a confirmation email is a requisite in this scenario.

I've spent a great a deal of time trying to a find a solution that works but to no avail.

Cheers.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 01 '13 at 15:57

The email address belongs to the user model, so there's no need to use profiles to let users update their email. Create a model form from the user model that has only email as a field, then provide that form in your view and process it. Something like:

class UserInfoForm(forms.ModelForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('email',)

def my_view(request):
    if request.POST:
        user_form = UserInfoForm(request.POST, instance=request.user)
        if user_form.is_valid():
            user_form.save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('form_success_screen'))
    else:
        user_form = UserInfoForm()
    return render_to_response('my-template.html', {'user_form': user_form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

Note that if the form is successful, I'm returning a HttpResponseRedirect to send the user to another page. In this case, I'm looking up a named url from my urls file.

Sorry if I seem demanding but have you come across a snippet which sends a verification email. I'm good with Python but I haven't implemented anything similar in Django. Thank you for the help though. — Mridang Agarwalla, Apr 17 '10 at 12:45
Try django-email-confirmation: http://github.com/jtauber/django-email-confirmation/ — Tom, Apr 17 '10 at 14:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '10 at 12:33

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Seems that someone did write their own. It allows users to change their email addresses and sends confirmation emails.

django-emailchange

answered Apr 18 '10 at 12:33

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '12 at 05:34

Not quite sure if it's a new requirement of Django 1.4 but I tried Tom's suggestion:

class UserInfoForm(forms.ModelForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('email')

and got a fields error. You must have a trailing comma after each field (or so that's what solved my error):

fields = ('email',)

fixed the problem

Change user email in Django without using django-profiles

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