How to check whether a user is online in django template?

Question

In template, when I use

{% if topic.creator.is_authenticated %}
Online
{% else %}
Offline
{% endif %}

the users turn out to be always onli

Answer 1

Yes it does. But the correct way to check if a user is logged in or not is to use : request.user.is_authenticated. This will return True if the person is logged in other wise False.

eg:

in the template:

{% if request.user.is_authenticated ==True %}
      do something awesome.

in views pass request into the template.

return render('url/filename.html',{'any variable name':request})