Thanks everyone, that was a foolish mistake... I am not only new to
django but also new to python
cheers,
james
On Jul 19, 4:09 pm, Nathan Ostgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may find it easier to avoid these conflicts by doing:
> from django.contrib import auth
>
> Then use:
> user = auth.authenticate(username='foo', password='bar')
> auth.login(request, user)
>
> On Jul 19, 1:02 am, james_027 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > hi,
>
> > i've been trying to get started with django and i am stock in this
> > problem and found out that there's a conflict in login() method. here
> > is my view code
>
> > from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
> > from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> > from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login
>
> > def index(request):
> > if not request.user.is_authenticated():
> > return render_to_response('login.htm', {'from':request.path})
> > return render_to_response('index.htm')
>
> > def login(request):
> > if request.method == 'POST':
> > user = authenticate(username=request.POST['username'],
> > password=request.POST['password'])
> > if user is not None:
> > if user.is_active:
> > #return HttpResponse('user authenticated')
> > fixlogin(request, user)
> > return HttpResponseRedirect('/main/')
> > else:
> > return HttpResponse('user not active')
> > else:
> > return HttpResponse('authenticate fail')
> > return render_to_response('login.htm')
>
> > The problem is an error saying login() method accept only one
> > parameter, where I follow this documentation
> > (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/authentication/#how-t......).
> > After many times of trail and error I thought of changing this import
> > from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login to from
> > django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login as fixlogin() and use
> > fixlogin(request, user)
>
> > Is this already fix? I am just using 0.96.
>
> > Thanks
> > james
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