Django edit user profile
django, edit, profile
Solution
You are very close. When you are instantiating the form, you need to pass the `User` object you are modifying as the `instance` argument.
From the docs:
A subclass of ModelForm can accept an existing model instance as the keyword argument `instance`; if this is supplied, save() will update that instance.
In your code, it would look like:
form = UpdateProfile(request.POST, instance=request.user)
if form.is_valid():
...
You can checkout more info here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/forms/modelforms/#the-save-method
Problem
I'm trying to create an "Edit Profile" form in the fronted. What happens is that my form(i'm not 100% sure) tries to create a user instead of finding the current user and update his profile. So I think that's the issue. Checked many questions here but none was clear enough. The fields I'm trying to edit are email, first name and last name. (Also I would like to add uda forms.py ``` class UpdateProfile(forms.ModelForm): username = forms.CharField(required=True) email = forms.EmailField(required=True) first_name = forms.CharField(required=False) last_name = forms.CharField(required=False) class Meta: model = User fields = ('username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name') def clean_email(self): username = self.cleaned_data.get('username') email = self.cleaned_data.get('email') if email and User.objects.filter(email=email).exclude(username=username).count(): raise forms.ValidationError('This email address is already in use. Please supply a different email address.') return email def save(self, commit=True): user = super(RegistrationForm, self).save(commit=False) user.email = self.cleaned_data['email'] if commit: user.save() return user ``` views.py ``` def update_profile(request): args = {} if request.method == 'POST': form = UpdateProfile(request.POST) form.actual_user = request.user if form.is_valid(): form.save() return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('update_profile_success')) else: form = UpdateProfile() args['form'] = form return render(request, 'registration/update_profile.html', args) ```