Question

I need to know how to get this code working on Django.

This example WORKS:

View:

def index(request):    
    if request.user.is_authenticated():
        username = request.user.username
    else:
        username = None

Template:

{{ username }}

Now what I want to do is this, but this is NOT WORKING:

View:

def index(request):    
    username = request.user.username

Template:

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    {{ username }}
{% endif %}

Use the template in this way is possible? I am a beginner, I am just testing how things work here.

Any clue?

Best Regards,

Answer 1

Note that if you pass RequestContext to your templates (which is true most of the time), you already have request.user aliased simply as {{ user }}. Then you do just

{{ user.username }}

and the view function needs to know nothing about this.