Putting a django login form on every page

Question

I\'d like the login form (AuthenticationForm from django.contrib.auth) to appear on every page in my site if the user is not logged in. When the user logs in, they will be r

Answer 1

The easiest way is probably to put the form in manually in a base template like so:

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    
{% csrf_token %}
        
        
        Login
    
{% else %}
    {# display something else here... #}
{% endif %}

and then just write a view hooked up to a URL named "login" to handle the form as you would normally (using a form object that matches the above form). Have the view redirect to request.META['HTTP_REFERER'] to show it on the same page as the one that submitted.

This approach avoids middleware or the need to make a form available to every single template through the context.

Update: There are some problems with this approach; need to think on it a little more. Hopefully it at least gets you going in the right direction.