Hi Daniel thanks for your reply that makes much more sense now.
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, richard <pullenjenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi i have seen alot of people saying to use a context processor to
> include forms in multiple page. I have written a context processor
> login form that just returns the django Authentication form and
> everything works great including the form.errors etc except that I
> cant seem to redirect from the context processor after is_valid is
> called. Are context processors not supposed ot be used in this way? My
> thoughts inititally were that if it seems to support a request and can
> do the validation why not? Basically stuck on using
> HttpResponseRedirect in a context processor. I have managed to get
> this working by passing a variable called redirect in the dictionary
> returned to my template and then saying if the redirect tag is
> available use the browsers meta tag to redirect me but i dont think
> this is the way it should work. code below please advise thanks.
>
> context_processors.py
>
> from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
> from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
>
>
> def login_form(request):
> if request.method == 'POST':
> form = AuthenticationForm(data=request.POST)
> if form.is_valid():
> #return HttpResponseRedirect('/home') ONLY THING THATS NOT
> WORKING
> return {'login_form': form, 'redirect': '/home'}
> else:
> form = AuthenticationForm(request)
> return {'login_form': form}
>
> template.html
> {{ form.non_field_errors}} # works fine after post with errors showing
> {{ form.username}}
> {{ form.password}}
> {% if redirect %}
> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url={{ redirect }}">
> {% endif %}
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