Re: Why is there no view for sign up in django.contrib.auth.views?

Russell,

I disagree. You say that logging in has constant requirements but it doesn't. Some applications will require a username and a password, others will require an email address and a password, others will have some sort of captcha, others will have 2-factor authentication...

So logging in has as much constant requirements as registration does.

I believe it would be good to have a simple registration view and form just to get people started, like the login and logout ones. Just like you made some assumptions to provide a view and a form for logging in (which, again, doesn't necessarily suite every project), it would be simple to provide a view and a form for registration.

Cheers,

Raúl

On Saturday, 6 April 2013 02:18:18 UTC+1, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Cody Scott <cody.j....@gmail.com> wrote:

If I want users to sign up for my site, I need to make a register view, register form and a register template.

Why is there a view and form for every other user account action (login, logout, etc.)

Logging in has constant requirements - a username and a password. You must provide both, or you can't log in. The forms and views to support this are simple. Logging out doesn't require any user data at all - you just log out the currently logged in user.

What would you propose we put on a "register" view? Every project is going to have different registration requirements. For that matter, there's also different registration processes - are you going to enforce verification of email addresses? Do you want to gather profile information before or after the email address has been verified? 

*That* is why there isn't a baked in Django "register" view, form and template.

There are, however, third party apps that can help. django-registration and django-profiles for example provide generic implementations of specific registration procedures. djangopackages.com is a good indication of the sorts of third-party tools that are available.

This also points out an important philosophical approach with Django - Django is much more that just the core. Django is a wide ecosystem of packages and tools. The wider ecosystem provides a lot more functionality that the core can ever provide, and it helps to distribute the load of maintaining these tools over a much wider group of individuals.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

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