RE: user object not available in template

2016-11-28 Thread Matthew Pava
, 2016 5:43 PM To: Django users Subject: Re: user object not available in template I just upgraded from 1.5 or something where the code worked fine I'm not sure what has changed in 1.10 but everything is back to normal after I changed def homepage(request): return render_to_res

Re: user object not available in template

2016-11-25 Thread Drew Ferguson
I just upgraded from 1.5 or something where the code worked fine I'm not sure what has changed in 1.10 but everything is back to normal after I changed def homepage(request): return render_to_response('xstatic_homepage.html', RequestContext(request)) to def homepage(request): return r

Re: user object not available in template

2016-11-25 Thread James Bennett
Ah, never mind, misread the question. Are you sure you're using a RequestContext? On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:23 PM, James Bennett wrote: > The auth context processor provides it, but not as a variable named > 'user'; instead it's attached to the 'request' variable, so what you want > is '{% if r

Re: user object not available in template

2016-11-25 Thread James Bennett
The auth context processor provides it, but not as a variable named 'user'; instead it's attached to the 'request' variable, so what you want is '{% if request.user.is_authenticated }}'. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Drew Ferguson wrote: > Hi > > Using Django 1.10 > > In my templates there is