Always including the user in the django template context

Question

I am working on a small intranet site for a small company, where user should be able to post. I have imagined a very simple authentication mechanism where people just enter

Answer 1

@Ryan: Documentation about preprocessors is a bit small

@Staale: Adding user to the Context every time one is calling the template in view, DRY

Solution is to use a preprocessor

A: In your settings add

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    'myapp.processor_file_name.user',
)

B: In myapp/processor_file_name.py insert

def user(request):
    if hasattr(request, 'user'):
        return {'user':request.user }
    return {}

From now on you're able to use user object functionalities in your templates.

{{ user.get_full_name }}