On Jan 9, 11:06 am, scelerat <jemenfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Django and am trying to figure out how to make
> authentication work in any view.
>
> First off, I have a base template which has a conditional like this:
>
> {% if user.is_authenticated %}
> Yay!
> {% else %}
> Boo.
> {% endif %]
>
> In an accounts/urls.py, I add a line like this:
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
> (r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
> )
>
> I copied the form from the Djangoprojects page on user authentication
> into a registration/login.html template.
>
> When visiting accounts/login for the first time, I get 'Boo.' but if I
> login and return to this login page, I get 'Yay.'
>
> If I go to any other view (all of them use the same base template), I
> only get 'Boo.'
>
> I looked through django.contrib.auth.views.login, and couldn't find a
> 'user' variable actually being set. Is this magic? How do I get the
> magic to work for all my views?
If you use RequestContext and have the settings in your
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS, then the user variable will be available
for use in your templates. Check out:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext
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