Need help getting authentication to work in all apps in a Django project

I'm starting up on Django, and am just a novice when it comes to server-side code. All of my web coding experience is in the front-end and is limited to CSS, HTML, and basic javascript. But I thought it was time to take it up a notch and le开发者_Python百科arn more about the back-end of things and decided to start here. I went through Django's starting application guide successfully. I'm not attempting to add an extension in and "soup up" the app.

I installed allauth for registration/user management. I was able to set it up and successfully register, log-in, log-out with the default templates.

However when I load up the polls application which is within the same project, it doesn't seem to work...

Code in index.html (found under templates/polls/)under polls application that doesn't work.

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    <b>ALL GOOD</b>
{% else %}
    <b>Go sign-in first.</b>
{% endif %}

Code in sign-up.html (found under templates/account/) under accounts that does work.

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
    Good work
{% else %}
    Fail
{% endif %}

Am I missing an import statement somewhere? Why does it work in one template folder but not the other?

Thanks in advance!

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try request.user.is_authenticatedinstead.

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If you use RequestContext(request) and you have django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS the user variable will be accessible on your template.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#django-contrib-auth-context-processors-auth

I think that made more sense in my head.

RequestContext is from from django.template import RequestContext and when you

render_to_response("mytemplate.html",
    RequestContext(request, {"other_variable": other_value, "more": True}))

or

template.render(RequestContext(request, {"other_variable": other_value, "more": True}))

Simply put: you get access to a bunch of variables without specifying them.

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Edit :-

I just found you could use from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template instead of render_to_response

direct_to_template(request, "mytemplate.html", {"other_variable": other_value, "more": True})

It does the same as the render_to_response line I gave above.

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Without more info it's hard to say, but my initial reaction is that you may not be passing the user variable to the template context in your view function.

i.e.:

def view(request):
    t = loader.get_template('index.html')
    c = Context({"user": request.user})
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))