Question

According to Django’s password_reset view, it

Allows a user to reset their password
by generating a one-time use link that
can be used to reset the password, and
sending that link to the user’s
registered e-mail address.

with the email being generated by a user-supplied template. What I can’t find is the name of the link variable to use in the email-template (and it’s not {{ link }} 🙂

In the django-registration app, for instance, it’s {{ activation_key }}.

I even ran {% debug %} in my template to look at all the variables, and nothing looked obvious. Also, this is Django 1.2, not the development version.

Update: my template looks like:

{{ protocol }}://localhost:8000{% url django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm uidb36=uid token=token %}

Click on the link (or copy/paste into your browser), and then you can change your password

And gives me the result (in a text file simulating email):

http://localhost:8000/accounts/password/reset/confirm/12-2ws-1c60be00955ea4=
a7a62e/

Click on the link (or copy/paste into your browser), and then you can chang=
e your password

Answer 1

Take a look at the default password_reset_email.html

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_email.html

This is what generates the link:

{{ protocol }}://{{ domain }}{% url 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm' uidb36=uid token=token %}

edit:

for version 1.2:

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/branches/releases/1.2.X/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_email.html?rev=15606

which doesn’t quote the view.

{{ protocol }}://{{ domain }}{% url django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm uidb36=uid token=token %}

There is a note about this revision stating:

Revision 12889, 617 bytes checked in by russellm, 13 months ago (diff)

Fixed #12945 — Corrected the parsing
of arguments in {% url %} when the
argument list has spaces between
commas. This is a revised version of
r12503, which was a fix for #12072.
Thanks to SmileyChris? for the patch,
and to dmoisset for finding all the
places in the docs that the old style
syntax was used.

Here is a note about changes with the url tag:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/#changes-to-url-and-ssi