django form

Question

is anybody know how to log the username who is currently loged in in form.py

Answer 1

{{ request.user }}

Answer 2

You need an __init__ method on your form, and pass request.user as an argument.

For example:

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):

    # Notice the custom argument 'user'
    def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        # do something here with user, such as calling log.debug()

    class Meta:
        model = MyModel

Now in your views.py, you create the form like this:

form = MyModelForm(request.user)

or, if you are processing POST request:

form = MyModelForm(request.user, request.POST)

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Edit to update answer after comment.

To get the user in the admin site you need to add the following method to your admin model in admin.py:

def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
    # Do something with request.user here
    obj.save()

Of course, this means you only have access to the user during a save. If you need access to request.user for other parts of admin, such as filtering querysets, see this post by James Bennett for more info:

Users and the admin