Hi All, I have created a login screen for users of the site which is like User Profile and uses the username and password from django users. When i try to login to my view i get the error below.
Environment: Request Method: POST Request URL: http://127.0.0.1/commTrack/commtrack/account/login/ Django Version: 1.1 Python Version: 2.5.4 Installed Applications: ['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'commTrack.commtrack'] Installed Middleware: ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware') Traceback: File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 92. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "C:/xampp/htdocs/commTrack\commtrack\views.py" in login_view 71. login(request, user) Exception Type: TypeError at /commtrack/account/login/ Exception Value: login() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given) Here is my setting.py # Django settings for commTrack project. DEBUG = True TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG ADMINS = ( # ('Your Name', 'your_em...@domain.com'), ) MANAGERS = ADMINS DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'. DATABASE_NAME = 'commtrack' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. DATABASE_USER = 'root' # Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' # Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_HOST = 'localhost' # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3. DATABASE_PORT = '3306' # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems. # If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your # system time zone. #TIME_ZONE = 'Africa/Dar_es_Salaam' TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago' # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here: # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' SITE_ID = 1 # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not # to load the internationalization machinery. USE_I18N = True # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/" MEDIA_ROOT = "C:/xampp/htdocs/commTrack/media/" # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases). # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com";, " http://example.com/media/"; MEDIA_URL = "http://127.0.0.1/commTrack/media/"; # URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/";, "/media/". ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = "http://localhost/commTrack/media/"; # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody. SECRET_KEY = 'i##+%y9+1u$vd#!g$=qld(--(nb-b71czx4cill&n!+1%2)er=' # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources. TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', # 'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source', ) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', ) ROOT_URLCONF = 'commTrack.urls' TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates". # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. #"/media/Otoro/Projects ITIDO/mytemplates" "C:/xampp/htdocs/commTrack/templates/", ) INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'commTrack.commtrack', ) AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'commTrack.commtrack.models.CustomUserModelBackend', ) CUSTOM_USER_MODEL = 'commtrack.CustomUser' Here is my view for login from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect from commTrack.commtrack.models import * def login_view(request): username = request.POST.get('username', '') password = request.POST.get('password', '') user = authenticate(username=username, password=password) if user is not None and user.is_active: # Correct password, and the user is marked "active" login(request, user) # Redirect to a success page. return HttpResponseRedirect("/commTrack/") else: # Show an error page return HttpResponseRedirect("/commTrack/commtrack/invalid/") and here is my model.py class CustomUserModelBackend(ModelBackend): def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None): try: user = self.user_class.objects.get(username=username) if user.check_password(password): return user except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: return None def get_user(self, user_id): try: return self.user_class.objects.get(pk=user_id) except self.user_class.DoesNotExist: return None @property def user_class(self): if not hasattr(self, '_user_class'): self._user_class = get_model(*settings.CUSTOM_USER_MODEL.split('.', 2)) if not self._user_class: raise ImproperlyConfigured('Could not get custom user model') return self._user_class class CustomUser(User): """User with app settings.""" title = models.ForeignKey(Title) timezone = models.CharField(max_length=50, default='Africa/Dar es Salaam') # Use UserManager to get the create_user method, etc. objects = UserManager() Any idea plz. thanks in advance. 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