On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:19:41 -0800, Achim Domma wrote: > Hi, > > depending on if a user is logged in or not, I want to display a "login" > form or a "logout" button. I tried to use this code snippet: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/auth/#id6 > > If I render my view using render_to_response("myTemplate.html") the user > variable is empty. If I use > render_to_response("myTemplate.html",context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > I get the correct user and can display the username. But > is_authenticated still always returns false!? Any hint what I might be > doing wrong? > > According to the documentation > "context_instance=RequestContext(request)" should only be required when > passing a additional data dictionary to render_to_response. As passing > data to a view and checking if the user is logged in should be something > quite common, this sounds strange to me!? > > I want to display the user information / status in my master template, > so having to pass a RequestContext into the template from each view > would be very tedious. Feels like I'm on a complete wrong way!? > > Any hint would be very appreciated! > > cheers, > Achim
Hello Achim, It's difficult to tell why is_authenticated returns false for you, but assuming there aren't any typos in your template then you need to check that your views are working correctly, particularly that authentication are not "lost" by forgetting to pass them to one of your views. Passing a RequestContext to your templates is the correct way to give your templates access to authentication information. It seems cumbersome while your changing all your render_to_response calls but it doesn't need any maintenance after that. Cheers, Kev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
