On 10/4/05, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Andreas wrote:
> > What's the best way to check if a user is logged in on every page
> > (read: view) of a website? I'd like to be able to display the username
> > in the template if a user is logged in. At the moment, I'm using the
> > following code:
>
> If you use django.core.extensions.DjangoContext instead of
> django.core.template.Context the {{ user }} variable will
> automatically be available in your templates. If
> {{ user.is_anonymous }} is True then the user is *not* logged in;
> otherwise the user info is available as {{ user.username }},
> {{ user.email }}, etc.
A quick addition -- note that you can also do this in the view:
def foo_view(request):
if request.user.is_anonymous():
# Do something for anonymous users
else:
# Do something for logged-in users
Adrian
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