Django 1.5 - Login - django

Question

After creating a UserProfile model. I started to create login but I'm stuck because of get_user() error.
EXCEPTION
AttributeError: 'LoginForm' object has no attribute 'get_user'
Here are my codes:
UPDATE
class LoginView(FormView):
form_class = LoginForm
redirect_field_name = REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
template_name = 'login.html'
success_url = '/'
def form_valid(self, form):
username = form.cleaned_data['username']
password = form.cleaned_data['password']
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
if user is not None:
if user.is_active:
login(self.request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())
else:
return self.form_invalid()
def form_invalid(self):
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('accounts:login'))
def get_success_url(self):
if self.success_url:
redirect_to = self.success_url
else:
redirect_to = self.request.REQUEST.get(self.redirect_field_name, '')
netloc = urlparse.urlparse(redirect_to)[1]
if not redirect_to:
redirect_to = settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
elif netloc and netloc != self.request.get_host():
redirect_to = settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
return redirect_to
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
form_class = self.get_form_class()
form = self.get_form(form_class)
if form.is_valid():
return self.form_valid(form)
else:
return self.form_invalid()
How to fix this? Any help would be appreciated. I'm really new on Django 1.5. Need help.

Answer 1

[update]
In the original code, the author is doing the authenticate stuff inside a form method called get_user. You are doing it outside the form already, so just replace form.get_user()with user.
I use a login view that is not class based, and I don't even care into using a Django form instance, but it should be easy to adapt:
def signin(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
user = authenticate(
email=request.POST.get('username', '').lower().strip(),
password= request.POST.get('password', ''),
)
if user is None:
messages.error(request, u'Invalid credentials')
else:
if user.is_active:
login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(request.GET.get('next', '/'))
else:
messages.error(request, u'User is not active.')
return render_to_response('login.html', locals(),
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
[old answer]
Define a get_user method for your form.
Untested (but should get you in the right path):
def get_user(self):
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
return authenticate(
email=self.cleaned_data.get('username', '').lower().strip(),
password=self.cleaned_data.get('password', ''),
)