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

its possible by default, by doing the following steps, ensure you have added the context 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth' in your settings. By default its added in settings.py, so its looks like this

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.auth',)

And you can access user object like this,

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
Welcome, {{ user.username }}. Thanks for logging in.
{% else %}
    
Welcome, new user. Please log in.
{% endif %}

For more information, refer here http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/auth/#authentication-data-in-templates