On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Andrew English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I need to explicitly call authenticate and login in my own view to > populate the user data? From what I read, it seems that the > django.contrib.auth.views.login does that automatically.
There's a difference between authenticating the user, which you've done, and making the user object available as a variable to the template, which I'm guessing you haven't done. You probably want to read this: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/#subclassing-context-requestcontext -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
