Django login, logout urls and current user name

Question

Hi Guys,

I'm new to Django and just just got django-registration up and running. Could anyone tell me how to get a get a log-in, log-out url name and the name of the current user in my template. Are these called template tags? IS there a comprehensive list somewhere for all the default variables supplied with Django.

I'm a little lost with this. I've Googled for a while now but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks.

Answer 1

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/auth/

Answer 2

Make sure that you have 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware' in settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

In template:

{{ request.user.username }}

The login and logout url can be found in settings:

• settings.LOGIN_URL (default=/accounts/login)
• settings.LOGOUT_URL (default=/accounts/logout)

You will have to implement those views and refer to it from url tag

{% url your.login.view.name %}

See..

• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/
• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings