How can I get the username of the logged-in user in Django?

Question

How can I get information about the logged-in user in a Django application?

For example:

I need to know the username of the logged-in user to say who posted

Answer 1

if you are using the old way of writting views, in the way of Function-Based-Views...

in your view, you are creating a new variable called usuario to save the request.user probably...

but if you returning to the Template a context_instance, passing the value of the Context of the request, you will get the logged user, just by accessing the request.

// In your views file
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
def your_view(request):
    data = {
        'formulario': Formulario()
        # ...
    }
    return render_to_response('your_template.html',
        data, context_instance=RequestContext(request))


// In your template

    
Publica tu tuit, {{ request.user.username.title }} 
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ formulario.as_p }}