Django User Class (django.contrib.auth) fname not working

Question

In my website, I can't display the user.fname. Everything else in user, like user.username, user.email, and user.password work, but i cant display the name.

PS: ive tried user.fname, user.name, user.name, user.first_name so far, none display anything

EDIT:

user = request.user
if request.user.is_authenticated():
    fname = request.user.get_short_name()
return render(request, 'student/dashboard.html', {'user': user, 'fname': fname})

I added this, but i still cant call it for some reason (this is my views)

class RegisterForm(forms.Form):
        GRADE_CHOICES = ( 
                    (9,'9'), (10,'10'), (11,'11'), (12,'12') , 
                )
        curr_year = date.today().year
        GRAD_YEAR_CHOICES = ( 
                    (curr_year,curr_year), (curr_year+1,curr_year+1), (curr_year+2,curr_year+2), (curr_year+3,curr_year+3) , 
                     )
        fname = forms.CharField(max_length = 25)
        lname = forms.CharField( max_length = 25)
        emailid = forms.EmailField()
        passwd1 = forms.CharField(max_length=100,widget=forms.PasswordInput)
        passwd2 = forms.CharField(max_length=100,widget=forms.PasswordInput)
        gradyear = forms.ChoiceField( choices=GRAD_YEAR_CHOICES)
        grade = forms.ChoiceField( choices=GRADE_CHOICES)

This is in my forms.py

Do you get any error? Did you check the database? Did you place a debug breakpoint and saw what request.user object holds? There are chances that your if condition is failing. Because for an anonymous user, these things are empty — Vishal Sharma, Nov 01 '15 at 01:49
when i changed fname to a string, it displayed. So therefore, i addume that the user.fname is empty, for some reason @VishalSh — Abhishek Patel, Nov 01 '15 at 01:54
Add a breakpoint at your if statetement and look into request.user object. Also check `auth_user` table and go throught the entries over there. Also, use `request.user.first_name` — Vishal Sharma, Nov 01 '15 at 01:57
No, just running the server from command line and seeing if it displays on the localhost @VishalSh — Abhishek Patel, Nov 01 '15 at 02:03
Okay.. write a print statement before your if condition. print(request.user.username) and see what you get — Vishal Sharma, Nov 01 '15 at 02:04
I used a DB editor, and saw that first and last name were getting no info, found my problem, thanks for all the help @VishalSh — Abhishek Patel, Nov 01 '15 at 02:07
Yep, the first comment was enough to understand. Use SQLworkbench. Makes life easy — Vishal Sharma, Nov 01 '15 at 02:11

WayBehind · Answer 1 · 2015-11-01T00:30:48.957

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Try

 user.first_name
 user.last_name

if the user is already loggedin you can use in your views:

if request.user.is_authenticated():
    username = request.user.get_username()

more info: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/contrib/auth/

edited Nov 01 '15 at 00:30

answered Nov 01 '15 at 00:25

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nope, this didnt work. Im starting to think theres a problem with my code somewhere? – Abhishek Patel Nov 01 '15 at 01:41

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