Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread Robocop
Aaaah, i believe the login functionality is a subset of the sessions functionality, which does need cookies. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread KillaBee
On Oct 9, 5:53 pm, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry but i don't understand your question.  Could you please > CAREFULLY review your posts for typos or obvious grammatical errors as > right now, i have no idea what you're asking.  If you want to know if > my code works, yes it

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread Robocop
I'm sorry but i don't understand your question. Could you please CAREFULLY review your posts for typos or obvious grammatical errors as right now, i have no idea what you're asking. If you want to know if my code works, yes it does. I've tested every single line of my login code, and the only

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread KillaBee
On Oct 9, 5:28 pm, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is your {{user}} variable not showing up at all, or is it returning > "AnonymousUser"?  If it is returning AnonymousUser then I am having > the exact same problem.  DO NOT waste your time trying to use the > contrib.auth.views login

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread Robocop
is your {{user}} variable not showing up at all, or is it returning "AnonymousUser"? If it is returning AnonymousUser then I am having the exact same problem. DO NOT waste your time trying to use the contrib.auth.views login function as i just attempted that and it gave me the same behavior.

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread KillaBee
On Oct 9, 4:58 pm, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > request.user will return the currently logged in user, so i'm assuming > your login code is returning nothing. > > Try something like user  = auth.authenticate(username = > username_from_html, password = password_from_html) in your login

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread Robocop
request.user will return the currently logged in user, so i'm assuming your login code is returning nothing. Try something like user = auth.authenticate(username = username_from_html, password = password_from_html) in your login code, and then see if you can use the {{user}} variable in the

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread KillaBee
On Oct 9, 4:24 pm, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry but your question is very difficult to understand.  From > what i understand you want to show the username in a form, so why not > just do a username = request.user in your view, and then {{username}} > in your html template?  If

Re: display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread Robocop
I'm sorry but your question is very difficult to understand. From what i understand you want to show the username in a form, so why not just do a username = request.user in your view, and then {{username}} in your html template? If you need to pass the username variable with the form, then just

display User info, newbie

2008-10-09 Thread KillaBee
I have been looking around all day for a way to display the username of a page. The only thing that I could find is making my a middleware. there has got to be something that I can put on my template like the {{ form.as_p }} to display fields from form. can someone please, give me a hint..the