Django password change view form

Question

I'm still new to Django and have a few questions on how using built in views work. I noticed that djang comes with a built in password change view at django.contrib.auth.views.password_change. This view shows the admin site in the background of the template, while I want to provide my own css/template but keep the form and functionality of that view. How would I do this? Can you pass something into the urls.py

r'password_change/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change')

like a custom template? I am unsure of the proper way to do this.

Periodontics

Answer 1

You can specify the template that should be used by setting the template_name argument:

(r'password_change/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', {'template_name': 'path/to/password_reset.html'})

In your template make sure you use the provided {{ form }} template variable and you're good to go.

Herdic

Answer 2

Django will attempt to load templates first from your application, then fall back. So, to override the templates for contrib.auth, you just need to:

1. Create a directory named auth in your template directory.
2. Create a template of the same name that the built-in view is expecting to load.
3. There is no step 3.

Eyelet

Isn't it the other way around then? First on the project template directory and then fall back to the app? – Idelia

By "your application" I mean the Django project. The template directory I referenced in "Step 1" is the primary template directory in the project. If you add a directory synonymous to one already present in Django, your template directory will override the built-in. – Eyelet

Answer 3

Also you can provide an url to the successful change with:

url(r'^password/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', {'post_change_redirect' : '/password-changed/','template_name': 'password.html'},),

Castellano

castilo, are you addressing accepted answer or the question? Try make your answer a bit more clearer regarding this – Waterish