how to have multiple user types in django-CodePudding

this app is a school management system with django

i have three types of user in my web app, my problem is how to authorize these and give them permissions.

users are: teacher, student, school staff(admins)

i need to have different pages(apps) for each of them, like:

teacher -> login -> teacher_app.

student -> login -> student_app.

im new in django

my models are something like this:

class Student(models.Model) :
    national_id = models.CharField(
        max_length=50,
        unique=True,
    )

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=50)

class Teacher(models.Model) :
    personal_id = models.CharField(
        max_length=50,
        unique=True,
    )

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    phone_number = models.CharField(
        max_length=50, 
        unique=True,
    )
    email = models.EmailField(
        max_length=250, 
        unique=True,
    )

class Class(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

    start_time = models.TimeField(
        auto_now=False, 
        auto_now_add=False,
        default=DEFAULT_START_TIME,
    )
    end_time = models.TimeField(
        auto_now=False,
        auto_now_add=False,
        default=DEFAULT_END_TIME,
    )

    # Relations
    teacher = models.ForeignKey(
        Teacher, 
        on_delete=models.CASCADE
    )
    students = models.ManyToManyField(Student)

admins will create classes and add students and teachers.

CodePudding user response：

Django has Roles and Groups to categorise users. What is allowed and forbidden is controlled by Permissions. Every User, Role and Group can have different model-specific and view-specific Permissions. The system is quite complex and allows for many different setups. I'd suggest you chek an overview such as this one.

CodePudding user response：

It is better to handle it with a field (not with 2 different models) for example you can have something like this:

class User(models.Model) :
    # NEW
    ROLES = (('student', 'Student'), ('teacher', 'Teacher'))
    role = models.CharField(
        max_length=20,
        choices=ROLES,
        default='student'
    )


    national_id = models.CharField(
        max_length=50,
        unique=True,
    )

    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=50)

Also, you can use the Django permission model more detail