On Saturday 10 June 2006 16:40, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> so I'd like to add userinfo to the context by default. To do that,
> I've figured out that I need to add my own function to
> TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, but I'm a little confused how to get the
> currently logged in user so I can get the appropriate user info.
>
> def userInfoProcessor(request):
> #this will get called after django.core.context_processors.auth, so
> #the user will be in the context, but how do I get access to the
> context
> #if I only have an HttpRequest instance?
> ui = #somehow get the appropriate UserInfo instance
> return { 'userinfo':ui }
>
> What am I missing?
You can get the User object direct from the request object --
request.user (assuming it is the currently logged in user you want),
and get the UserInfo from that.
Luke
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