How do I use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates
If you take a look at the sources for django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset you'll see that it uses RequestContext
. The upshot is, you can use Context Processors to modify the context which may allow you to inject the information that you need.
The b-list has a good introduction to context processors.
Edit (I seem to have been confused about what the actual question was):
You'll notice that password_reset
takes a named parameter called template_name
:
def password_reset(request, is_admin_site=False, template_name='registration/password_reset_form.html', email_template_name='registration/password_reset_email.html', password_reset_form=PasswordResetForm, token_generator=default_token_generator, post_reset_redirect=None):
Check password_reset for more information.
... thus, with a urls.py like:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *from django.contrib.auth.views import password_reseturlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^/accounts/password/reset/$', password_reset, {'template_name': 'my_templates/password_reset.html'}), ...)
django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset
will be called for URLs matching '/accounts/password/reset'
with the keyword argument template_name = 'my_templates/password_reset.html'
.
Otherwise, you don't need to provide any context as the password_reset
view takes care of itself. If you want to see what context you have available, you can trigger a TemplateSyntax
error and look through the stack trace find the frame with a local variable named context
. If you want to modify the context then what I said above about context processors is probably the way to go.
In summary: what do you need to do to use your own template? Provide a template_name
keyword argument to the view when it is called. You can supply keyword arguments to views by including a dictionary as the third member of a URL pattern tuple.
Strongly recommend this article.
I just plugged it in and it worked
http://garmoncheg.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/django-resetting-passwords-with.html
You just need to wrap the existing functions and pass in the template you want. For example:
from django.contrib.auth.views import password_resetdef my_password_reset(request, template_name='path/to/my/template'): return password_reset(request, template_name)
To see this just have a look at the function declartion of the built in views:
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/auth/views.py#L74