On Monday, 18 June 2012 08:40:53 UTC+1, Laurence MacNeill wrote: > > Ok, I'm a total django noob here, so I am probably doing this wrong... > But here goes... > > When someone comes to my django app's root (index), I need to verify their > user-name (which is stored in a Linux environment variable). Based on > where (or if) I find their user-name, I want to send them to one of three > different pages -- if I don't find them in any database, I want to add them > to a given database, then send them to a page. > > So here's what I have in my views.py file: > def index(request) > current_username = os.environ['REMOTE_USER'] > > So Melvyn has answered your question, but a quick note on terminology: what you've got there are separate *database tables*, or separate *Django models* -- not separate databases. Multiple databases is a whole different question, which you really don't want to get into as a newbie (or, indeed, at all if possible). -- DR.
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