Not able to add custom fields to django-registration

Question

I extended RegistrationFormUniqueEmail

class CustomRegistrationFormUniqueEmail(RegistrationFormUniqueEmail):
    first_name = forms.CharField(label=_('First name'), max_length=30,required=True)
    last_name = forms.CharField(label=_('Last name'), max_length=30, required=True)
    def save(self, profile_callback=None):
        new_user = super(CustomRegistrationFormUniqueEmail, self).save(profile_callback=profile_callback)
        new_user.first_name = self.cleaned_data['first_name']
        new_user.last_name = self.cleaned_data['last_name']
        return new_user

then changed view

#       form = form_class(data=request.POST, files=request.FILES)
        form = CustomRegistrationFormUniqueEmail(data=request.POST, files=request.FILES)

But, still I see default form which contains four fields only.

Answer 1

We recently implemented such a form. Here's what we've done:

• Create a new backend (just copy it from the default backend to start with)

  registration/
      backends/
          default/
          custom/ # <- your new backend
  

  ...

• In the new urls.py adjust the backend arguments

  ...
  { 'backend': 'registration.backends.custom.DefaultBackend' },
  ...
  

• Create a forms.py under custom. Adjust this form to your liking (fields and validations)

• In the registration/urls.py point to the proper backend:

   # from registration.backends.default.urls import *
   from registration.backends.custom.urls import *
  

That should work. Particularly this works because:

• Your custom/__init__.py will have a DefaultBackend class with a get_form_class method:

  def get_form_class(self, request):
      """
      Return the default form class used for user registration.
      """
      return RegistrationForm
  

• And you import your own RegistrationForm in that file, too:

  from registration.backends.custom.forms import RegistrationForm