How to auto insert the current user when creating an object in django admin?

Question

I have a database of articles with a

submitter = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False)

Where User is imported as follows: <

Answer 1

As per http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.prepopulated_fields you can't use ForeignKey with the prepopulated_field admin directive, alas

But this thread might help you. In my answer I also link to a Google-scanned version of Pro Django, which has a great solution for this kind of thing. Ideally, am sure it's better if you can buy the book, but Google seems to have most of the relevant chapter anyway.