On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Ken Chida <ken.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried my best to search for an answer but my efforts yielded nothing.
> Allow me to give you a simple example to illustrate my problem.  Let's
> pretend that I want to have a login form on every single page on my
> website.  Obviously, the login form will have a corresponding view
> function.  What is the most elegant way to implement the login functionality
> on every single page?  One brute force method would be to include the login
> view inside all view functions for every page; these view functions would
> call the login view if the HttpRequest object contains a flag that becomes
> active when the user clicks the login submit button.  This method would
> work, but it goes against DRY best practices.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?  Maybe I can use a custom template tag?

it sounds to me like you need a custom decorator for your views, I
can't give you more details since I've never written one.

-- 
Marc

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