Temporary session directory

2009-08-28 Thread John Barham
I'd like to store per-session files so need a way to reliably create a per-session temp directory. Is it reasonable to use the session.session_key to generate a unique name? Also, is there a way to have Django automatically run some code to cleanup my session once it has expired? Or do I have t

Re: Displaying username on every page

2009-08-19 Thread John Barham
On Aug 19, 9:27 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > Yes, I'd read about RequestContext but from what I understand you have > > to pass it explicitly to render_to_response().  Is that the case? > > yes Thanks for the confirmation. In that case I'll have to write my own render_to_response() wrapper.

Re: Displaying username on every page

2009-08-19 Thread John Barham
On Aug 19, 5:06 pm, grahamu wrote: > If you use RequestContext(), you automatically get visibility to the > current user and their permissions (Sorry, I meant to say RequestContext instead of RequestInstance.) Yes, I'd read about RequestContext but from what I understand you have to pass i

Displaying username on every page

2009-08-19 Thread John Barham
Apologies in advance if this is a FAQ but I've searched the list and can't find a precise answer. I want to display the login status of the user at the top of every page. If they were logged in, it should say something like "Logged is as (Log Out)" and if they're not logged in it should show a