On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Sorry for the double-message. Anyways, if you do want to do what that other >>> person recommended, simply find the View that the user is redirected to >>> after logging in. Then, modify the "context data" of that view to dump >>> whatever data to the template. And then do some magic in the template based >>> upon that context data. In short, put this logic in the view the user is >>> sent to after they've logged in. >> >> What view they are redirected to is not consistent. It depends on what >> the user is permissioned for and what features the customer has paid >> for. But I may be able to do this in some common part of the code. >> Thanks. > > Another issue with this is that I only want to display the pop up > once, immediately after they login. I don't think I can tell if that's > the case in the view, only in the code that is called after login().
So what I ended up doing was to add a session-cookie with the popup-information. I can then access in the base template, but the issue I am having now is that they want the popup to be on top of the login screen, and it's displaying on a blank screen, after the login screen is cleared. ARHG! > >> >> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is the "Dialog Box" going to be presented using Javascript? If so, why not >>>> use Javascript for this functionality? I'd typically only use this type of >>>> functionality to serve pages when javascript isn't enabled or you need to >>>> show various templates based upon the type of browser (for example, a >>>> Mobile >>>> browser). Just a suggestion. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > I've only been working with django for 6 months, and I'm not really >>>>> > clear on how the login process works. >>>>> > >>>>> > I have a client that has a login screen created by a template. It has >>>>> > a submit button with: >>>>> > >>>>> > <form id="login" action="/accounts/login/" method="POST"> >>>>> > >>>>> > In their urls file they have: >>>>> > >>>>> > (r'^accounts/login/$', login) >>>>> > >>>>> > In their views file they call login(request) >>>>> > >>>>> > What they want is, after the user has successfully logged in, I need >>>>> > to detect which browser they are using, and depending on which it is, >>>>> > potentially pop up a dialog box. I can't figure out where that code >>>>> > would live. I'm not asking how to detect the browser type, but rather, >>>>> > where that javascript code would go, and how I would cause it to get >>>>> > invoked after the login. >>>>> >>>>> Someone suggested getting the browser type on the server side, and >>>>> then adding a variable to my response and check it in the template. I >>>>> like this solution, however I cannot figure out how to add the >>>>> variable to the response. After the successful login, the code calls >>>>> HttpResponseRedirect. How can I can I add a variable to that? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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 >>>>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
