Retrieve SQL entries from Django login

Question

I'm new to Django. I wrote a login script using the built-in User models.

def login_user(request):
    state = "Please login below..."
    username = password = ''
    if request.POST:
        username = request.POST['username']
        password = request.POST['password']

        user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
        if user is not None:
            if user.is_active:
                login(request, user)
                state = "You're successfully logged in!"
                return render_to_response('home.html',{'username': username})
            else:
                state = "Your account is not active, please contact the site admin."
        else:
            state = "Your username and/or password were incorrect."

    return render_to_response('index.html',{'state':state})

This opens a new page home where I display the {{username}}. However, how can I retrieve other values like id,email,fullname etc. of that particular username from database and display them on my home page. I've tried using User.objects.all(), but it doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

You already have the user object, (authenticate() returns it), so just retrieve information from user. See the User documentation to see what you can get from it:

# ...
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if user is not None:
    if user.is_active:
        state = "You're successfully logged in!"
        info = dict(username=username, email=user.email, fullname=user.get_full_name())
        return render_to_response('home.html', info)