Question

In my “root” template I have something like this

{% if special %}
some_special_html
{% endif %}

The special template var is inserted in template by certain views.

The problem is that I need the password_change view to allso set the special template var.

What’s best way to approach this?

Currently, the password_change view is called directly from urls.py:

url(r'^change_password/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change',
    {'template_name': 'profile/password_change.html'},
    name='password_change'),

Answer 1

As of at least Django 1.3, the password_change view does take extra context, although the documentation doesn’t mention it.

You can pass extra keyword arguments to a view by using the kwargs argument of the url function, so to get the extra context in, do something like this:

url(r'^password/change/$',
    auth_views.password_change,
    {'template_name': 'profile/password_change.html'},
    name='password_change',
    kwargs=dict(extra_context={'special': 'special'}),
    ),