Customizing sign in¶

django-sitegate by default uses a simple username/e-mail + password form. Although it is a rather common use case, inevitably there should come times, when such a sign in form is not suitable. Should it be only just styling, or entire form that you want to change, or provide several sign in options sitegate has some answers for you.

Further we’ll consider a number of approaches to sign in customization. But just before we start, let’s talk about sign in flows.

Sign in flows¶

sitegate uses the notion of sign in flows to describe sign in processes.

Besides some sign in logic each flow features a form which is used for signing in and a template to render that form.

And, of course, every sign in flow has its own name, so that we can address them and use at our will like so:

from django.shortcuts import render

# Import a flow class to use.
from sitegate.signin_flows.classic import ClassicSignin
from sitegate.decorators import signin_view

# And use that class for sign in.
@signin_view(flow=ClassicSignin)
def login(request):
    return render(request, 'login.html', {'title': 'Sign in'})

Hopefully you’ve already noticed this code is a spin off from Getting Started section. Not much have changed since, though now we have a classical Django log in form (username + password) instead of a modern one.

The above example should give you an idea of how sign in flows can differ from each other.

Built-in sign in flows¶

Sign in flow classes are places in sitegate.signin_flows module.

These are the options:

Modern flows - sitegate.signin_flows.modern
- ModernSignin
  
  Modernized sign in flow based on classic from Django built-in with username/e-mail authentication support.
  
  Default form: username/e-mail + password
  
  Note
  
  This sign in flow is the default one. It means that it will be used if you decorate your view with @signin_view decorator both without any parameters, or without flow parameter.
  
  Warning
  
  This flow assumes that both E-mail and Username fields of Django User model are inhabited with the same value. Since Django imposes different limits to those fields, maximum value length is defined by the shortest of them (Username).
Classic flows - sitegate.signin_flows.classic
- ClassicSignin
  
  Classic log in flow borrowed from Django built-in AuthenticationForm.
  
  Default form: username + password

Combining sign in flows¶

You can use more than one sign in flow with the same view, by stacking @signin_view decorators:

from django.shortcuts import render

from sitegate.signin_flows.classic import ClassicSignin
from sitegate.decorators import signin_view

# We'll use some our mythical MySignin flow, so let's import it.
from .my_signin_flows import MySignin

# Stack our decorators.
@signin_view(flow=MySignin)
@signin_view(flow=ClassicSignin)
def login(request):
    return render(request, 'login.html', {'title': 'Sign in'})

Additionally you’ll need to extend your template. Let’s extend the one from Getting started section:

{% extends "_base.html" %}
{% load sitegate %}

{% block page_contents %}
    <div class="my_signin_block one">
        {% sitegate_signin_form for ClassicSignin %}
    </div>
    <div class="my_signin_block two">
        {% sitegate_signin_form for MySignin %}
    </div>
{% endblock %}

Now your users might use either of two log in methods.

Form templates¶

sitegate uses templates to render forms bound to sign in flows, and is shipped with several of them for your convenience.

Sign in form templates are stored under sitegate/templates/sitegate/signin/. Feel free to examine them in need.

The following templates are shipped with the application:

form_as_p.html - This contents identical to that produced by form.as_p.

Note

This is the default template. It means that it will be used if you decorate your view with @signin_view decorator both without template parameter given.
form_bootstrap.html - This template produces HTML ready to use with Twitter Bootstrap Framework.
form_bootstrap3.html - This template produces HTML ready to use with Bootstrap Framework version 3.

Note

This also requires form-control class to be batch applied for every form widget for proper form fields styling.

See Batch styling form widgets section below.

E.g: widget_attrs={‘class’: ‘form-control’}
form_foundation.html - This template produces HTML ready to use with Foundation Framework.

Swapping form templates¶

If the built-in templates is not what you want, you can swap them for your own:

from django.shortcuts import render

from sitegate.decorators import signin_view

# I command: use my template. Its name is `my_sign_in_form.html` %)
@signin_view(template='my_sign_in_form.html')
def login(request):
    return render(request, 'login.html', {'title': 'Sign in'})

Note

You can address the built-in templates both by providing a full path and with a shortcut - filename without an extension.

For example: sitegate/signin/form_bootstrap.html and form_bootstrap are interchangeable.

And that’s all what you need to tell sitegate to use your custom template.

Batch styling form widgets¶

Now if the only thing that makes you uncomfortable with sign in is that form widgets (e.g. text inputs) lack styling and, say, it is required by some CSS framework you use, sitegate will help you to handle it.

Use widget_attrs parameter for @signin_view decorator to accomplish the task:

from django.shortcuts import render

from sitegate.decorators import signin_view

# Let's use the built-in template for Twitter Bootstrap
# and align widgets to span6 column,
# and use field label as a placeholder, that will be rendered by Bootstrap as a hint inside text inputs.
@signin_view(widget_attrs={'class': 'span6', 'placeholder': lambda f: f.label}, template='form_bootstrap')
def login(request):
    return render(request, 'login.html', {'title': 'Sign in'})

The most interesting thing here is probably lambda. It receives field instance, so you can customize widget attribute values in accordance with some field data.

Redirect after sign in¶

You can redirect to a URL passing redirect_to parameter to @signin_view as follows:

from django.shortcuts import render

from sitegate.decorators import signin_view

# Here we redirect to `/other_url`, but Django URL pattern names are also supported.
@signin_view(redirect_to='/other_url')
def login(request):
    return render(request, 'login.html', {'title': 'Sign in'})