Question

I am writing small social application. One of the features is to write user name in the header of the site. So for example if I am logged in and my name is Oleg (username), then I should see:

Hello, Oleg | Click to edit profile

Otherwise I should see something like:

Hello Please sign-up or join

What I want is to show this on every page of my site. The obvious solution is to pass request.user object into every view of my site. But here http://www.willmer.com/kb/category/django/
I read that I can simply access request object from any template, just by enabling:

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

Not sure why but it actually didn’t work 🙁

Maybe someone can help me and suggest a solution?

Thanks a lot,

Oleg

Answer 1

Also note that you should use django.core.context_processors.auth instead of django.core.context_processors.request if you don’t need the whole request context. Then you can simply type:

Hello {{ user.get_full_name }}

in your template.

Don’t forget to pass context_instance=RequestContext(request) when you call render_to_response (or use direct_to_template).