Actually, what I said is a bit wrong. To fill the author field correctly you should use a foreign key that points to the User model (again, assuming you're using the builtin django.contrib.auth User).
On Mar 10, 2:21 am, "risomt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I thoroughly agree with the above two, I'll go one step further > and say you should probably never put any code that sets admins > (superusers, or even straight access to django admin console) into > code whatsoever. > > To help you out with a direct answer: > > django has no difference between admin and regular user except a few > flags that grant the ability to login to admin (or edit it). While > those flags arent the subject, what you're looking for is part of the > request. > > "request.user" will allow access to any *basic* information (assuming > you're using the django.contrib.auth module) the author may have > > "request.user.username" is the login name of the current user, and the > actual information you want for the author field (I do this for a > picture upload app for a local project) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
