Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Koshelev
obj.user_id = request.user.id # this is too really? On 7 янв, 12:55, Collin Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 1:36 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I used request.user, it outputs the username of the currently > > logged in user. When I try and use this as part of

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-07 Thread Collin Grady
On Jan 6, 1:36 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I used request.user, it outputs the username of the currently > logged in user. When I try and use this as part of the entry into the > table, it won't let me as it's expecting an integer. You are mistaken. When /printing/ the user o

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-06 Thread Florian Apolloner
The error message: Invalid value: 'user' should be a instance, not a clearly states you should use a User-instance and not an integer (long). You might wanna show us some code... And yes printing request.user reuturns the username, but that's caused by __unicode__ and has nothing to to with th

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-06 Thread Darthmahon
When I used request.user, it outputs the username of the currently logged in user. When I try and use this as part of the entry into the table, it won't let me as it's expecting an integer. Is that wrong? On Jan 6, 9:33 pm, Florian Apolloner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are doing something l

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-06 Thread Florian Apolloner
You are doing something like my_instance.author = request.user.id whereas you should do: my_instance.author = request.user. Why? You are working with the Django ORM and it doesn't expect you to give it an User-Id (although it get's saved as that in the db), but an instance of django.contrib.auth.m

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-06 Thread Darthmahon
Thanks, should have guessed that! For some reason though it is returning the value as 11L. I just want it to return 11, as it is throwing up an error when trying to use it like that: Invalid value: 'user' should be a instance, not a I'm using a MySQL database, any way of stripping the L off t

Re: Getting current user id

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Koshelev
User id - request.user.id On 6 янв, 23:43, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Been looking to get the current id of the user logged in everywhere > but can't seem to find how to do this. > > Basically in my views.py file I want to insert an entry into a table. > Part of this ins