Then how do I use the session to pass data between views? What's wrong
with my code?
If it counts for anything, *'text'* returns *'None'* in my debug statements
(in the results() view).
On Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:38:40 AM UTC-4, Marcin wrote:
>
> What's confusing about this? You don't explicitly create sessions, and
> they last as long as they are configured to last, which by default is until
> the session cookie is cleared.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Thompson Jr. <
> spockthompso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. def login(request):
>> 2. m = Member.objects.get(username=request.POST['username'])
>> 3. if m.password == request.POST['password']:
>> 4. request.session['member_id'] = m.id
>> 5. return HttpResponse("You're logged in.")
>> 6. else:
>> 7. return HttpResponse("Your username and password didn't
>> match.")
>>
>> How about that for starters?
>>
>> The documentation goes from that to explaining how to set cookies. How
>> do they expect me to understand what's going on?
>> There's absolutely NO explanation of what's going on in that code.
>>
>> request.session['member_id'] = m.id
>>
>> How the hell does that work?
>>
>> They don't tell you where the session is started, how, what the scope of
>> the session declaration is, etc...
>>
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFd9NLZFmvo&playnext=1&list=PL6CB0A9FA1D9C736A&feature=results_video
>>
>>
>>
>> See that video? The video shows you how to use sessions very quickly.
>> How did the person in the video get ALL of that code from just the
>> documentation?
>>
>> If all readers in this thread and kindly tackle each point I made, I
>> promise you your own KFC when I start my empire. Until then, I really just
>> need someone to give me the step-by-step on this one. I'm completely new
>> to the framework and the documentation thus far has not been helpful. I've
>> mainly gotten by with the help of StackOverflow, IRC, and random code
>> snippets online -- and occasionally, some outdated books.
>>
>> If you don't want to explain or aren't going to ask me progressive
>> questions with regards to my confusion, please just skip over my plight.
>>
>> Thank you all.
>>
>> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:54:21 AM UTC-4, Daniel Roseman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:06:04 UTC+1, Gregory Thompson Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> I really don't understand the following, and I've read the documentation
>>>> over and over. I've been on this for two days:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - How to initiate a session
>>>> - How sessions are checked
>>>> - How to retrieve form data from one page to handle the data on another.
>>>>
>>>> Again, I've read through the documentation. I've asked on IRC but
>>>> everyone pretty much just says "RTFM" even when I tell them I have. This
>>>> is absolutely frustrating as an extreme beginner.
>>>>
>>>> I'd also like to add that I DO understand the core Python language.
>>>> Please, unless it's absolutely necessary, don't try explaining to me what
>>>> a dictionary, tuple, list, etc... is. I've already had my intelligence
>>>> insulted by the users on IRC in this regard. I really just don't
>>>> understand the sessions documentation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, you didn't understand the documentation, but you also don't want to
>>> be told what dictionaries/lists/tuples are. How about you tell us which
>>> bit of the examples under "Using sessions in views" (which I'm not linking
>>> to because you've said you've read it) you didn't understand?
>>> --
>>> DR.
>>>
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