On Friday, November 23, 2012, Lachlan Musicman wrote:

> It should be obvious, but I can't quite grok how to set the comment
> user to request.user in the comments/form.html
>
> I have a copy of comments/form.html in my templates folder in which
> I've removed the email and the url fields, but now I want to either
> set the default and auto fill to the user name or just to hide the
> field but to put the user name in the POST data.
>

Don't mind me.

For future reference:

Copied blatantly from base.html, added this field to the form.html
<input type="hidden" name="user_name" value="{% firstof user.first_name
user.username %}" />

and removed the URL, email and name fields from the if field.errors part of
the loop.

cheers
L.


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