Redirecting a user in a django template

Question

Hi,

I have a django website that is spilt depending on what user type you are, I need to redirect users that are not entitled to see certain aspects of the site,

in my template, I have

{% if user.get_profile.is_store %}
    <!--DO SOME LOGIC-->
{%endif%}

how would I go about redirecting said store back to the index of the site?

====EDIT====

ef downloads(request):
"""
Downloads page, a user facing page for the trade members to downloads POS etc
"""
if not authenticated_user(request):
 return HttpResponseRedirect("/professional/")

if request.user.get_profile().is_store():
 return HttpResponseRedirect("/")

user = request.user
account = user.get_profile()

downloads_list = TradeDownloads.objects.filter(online=1)[:6]
downloads_list[0].get_thumbnail()
data = {}
data['download_list'] = downloads_list

return render_to_response('downloads.html', data, RequestContext(request))

I implement the answer from thornomad, and now I get his error

Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/professional/downloads
Django Version: 1.1.1
Python Version: 2.6.2
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'sico.news',
 'sico.store_locator',
 'sico.css_switch',
 'sico.professional',
 'sico.contact',
 'sico.shop',
 'tinymce',
 'captcha']
Installed Middleware:
('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware')


Traceback:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  92.                 response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/var/www/sico/src/sico/../sico/professional/views.py" in downloads
  78.   if request.user.get_profile().is_store():
File "/var/www/sico/src/sico/../sico/shop/models.py" in is_store
  988.         return not self.account is None
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/models/fields/related.py" in __get__
  191.             rel_obj = self.related.model._base_manager.get(**params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/models/manager.py" in get
  120.         return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/models/query.py" in get
  305.                     % self.model._meta.object_name)

Exception Type: DoesNotExist at /professional/downloads
Exception Value: Account matching query does not exist.

Answer 1

You will want to do this, I think, in a view not in the template. So, something like:

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def myview(request):
    if request.user.get_profile().is_store():
        return HttpResponseRedirect("/path/")

    # return regular view otherwise

You could also use a @decorator for the view if you found yourself needing to do this a lot.

Answer 2

You wouldn't do this in the template, but in the view. Instead of calling render_to_response (which I presume you do now), you would call HttpResponseRedirect.

Answer 3

I think you might want to do the redirect in the view code.

For example, this would work in Django 1.1.

from django.shortcuts import redirect

def my_view(request):
    if request.user.get_profile().is_store:
        return redirect('index')
    # normal view code here
    return ....

Documentation for redirect shortcut is here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/shortcuts/ The arguments to redirect() can be (quoting the docs):

• A model: the model's get_absolute_url() function will be called.
• A view name, possibly with arguments: urlresolvers.reverse() will be used to reverse-resolve the name.
• A URL, which will be used as-is for the redirect location.

Answer 4

You really don't want to redirect in a template, as said in all other answers.

But if redirecting in a view is no option (why ever), you can do this:

{% if user.get_profile.is_store %}
    {% include '/path/to/template' %}
{% else %}
    {% include '/path/to/another_template' %}
{% endif %}