I'm currently working on an application for user registration on a Django CMS site.

My registration form is working just fine and creates the user, plus adds my custom fields to my registration model.

What I'd like to know is how to update auth_user to contain the user's first and last name.

Currently the user is being created in this manner:

import newform
from betaregistration.newform import RegistrationFormZ

def user_created(sender, user, request, **kwargs):
    form = RegistrationFormZ(request.POST)
    data = newform.BetaProfile(user=user)
    data.first_name = form.data["first_name"]
    data.last_name = form.data["last_name"]
    data.address = form.data["address"]
    data.city = form.data["city"]
    data.state = form.data["state"]
    data.postal_code = form.data["postal_code"]
    data.country = form.data["country"]
    data.phone= form.data["phone"]
    data.email = form.data["email"]
    data.save()

    # this was the solution
    user.first_name = form_data['first_name']
    user.last_name = form_data['last_name']
    user.save()
    # end solution

from registration.signals import user_registered
user_registered.connect(user_created)

Any help is appreciated. I'm using django-registration for my registration.

• django

Since you are passing user into user_created could you simply modify things as the following:

data.first_name = user.first_name = form.data["first_name"]
data.last_name = user.last_name = form.data["last_name"]

....

user.save()

I may be missing something but if you really do have access to user in user_created that should work. You could also potentially do the same using request.user instead of user.