On Thursday 20 Aug 2009 3:57:13 am John Barham wrote:
> I could of course pass in the username as a dictionary value for each
> page, but this quickly becomes tedious.  I also use render_to_response
> a lot and if I understand correctly it doesn't pass through the user
> info automatically, but will if you set the context_instance parameter
> to a RequestInstance.  Is there a way I can access the user info from
> any page without having to do the above?

use RequestContext - do not forget to add this in settings.py:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
        'django.core.context_processors.request',

You can then get the user as request.user in the template
-- 
regards
kg
http://lawgon.livejournal.com

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