User authentication with either username or email.

Hi, I created a backends.py in my project folder. backends.py :: *from django.conf import settings* *from django.contrib.auth.models import User* * * *class EmailOrUsernameModelBackend(object):* *def authenticate(self, username=None, password=None):* *if '@' in username:* *

Re: User authentication with either username or email.

As you can see in the views.py I did import the class * EmailOrUsernameModelBackend.* * * Now when I used " *user = EmailOrUsernameModelBackend().authenticate(username=username, password=password) *" It gave an error saying: AttributeError at /tangle/auth/ 'User' object has no attribute 'backen

Re: User authentication with either username or email.

Sorry. The error was: AttributeError at /authentication/ 'User' object has no attribute 'backend' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users

Importing the user.id in form.

Hi, I defined a model which has a 'ForeignKey' to the 'User' . models.py : *class Design(models.Model):* * title = models.CharField(max_length=100)* * designer=models.ForeignKey(User) * * description = models.TextField(null = True)* * def __unicode__(self):* * return self.title* * * forms.py :

Re: User authentication with either username or email.

This helped alot and solved the issue. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, s

Re: Importing the user.id in form.

That worked. Thanks alot. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-