Add this to your settings file

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

Then you can use {{ request }}

1. Add “django.contrib.admin” to INSTALLED_APPS
2. Add “from django.contrib import admin” to urls.py
3. Add “admin.autodiscover()” in urls.py
4. Change line to (r’^admin/(.*)’, admin.site.root),

Link to relevant page in Django tutorial

This is because the test cookie only gets set when you do a GET.

So doing this works:


response=client.get(login_page)
response=client.post(login_page, {'username': username, 'password': password, 'next': home_page})


But just doing the post doesn’t.


newuser=User.objects.create_user('john', 'lennon@thebeatles.com', 'johnpassword')


rather than this:


newuser=User(username="john",email="lennon@thebeatles.com",password="johnpassword")


The latter looks correct, but you’ll get problems logging in since Django stores the *hash* of the password in the db, not the clear text.

Another gotcha is that the client.login() function only works with pages where you can’t get at them until you have logged in - if the page is available to AnonymousUser, then login() will always fail.

If you’ve got your own module called calendar, rename it…

If you’re using a generic view, for example, ‘direct_to_template’, your render() function will then be passed a RequestContext , and you can access the request by context[’request’].

If you’re not using a generic view, and are using render_to_response(), then you have to explicitly pass context_instance=RequestContext(request) as the third parameter.

You enable the request context processor by adding this to your settings file:

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

You might also need to add back the default context processors. These vary from version to version - check the django documentation for the settings file for details.

For example, in 0.96, I’ve got this in my settings file

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ('django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.core.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.debug',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
)


Hope they may be of use…

Usage:

# Templatetag get_country_name returns the client’s country code
#
# Example:
# {% ifequal get_country “GB” %}
# do something
# {% endifequal %}

# Templatetag get_country sets the given variable name
# to the client’s country code
#
# Example:
# {% get_country as my_country %}
# {% ifequal my_country “GB” %}
# do something
# {% endifequal %}

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