How to write a logout function for my django app? - html

Question

Here is views.py:
def authent(request):
user = request.POST['username']
passw = request.POST['password']
featureDetail = []
loginrole = People_Login.objects.get(User_Name = user, Password = passw)
features = Role_FGroup_FSubGroup_FItems_Map.objects.filter(Role_Id = loginrole.id)
for p in features:
dic = {}
dic['ID'] = p.id
dic['Role_ID'] = p.Role_Id.id
dic['FGID'] = p.Feature_Group_Id.id
dic['FSGID'] = p.Feature_SubGroup_Id.id
dic['FIID'] = p.Feature_Items_Id.id
dic['SFGNAME'] = p.Feature_Group_Id.Name
dic['SFSGNAME'] = p.Feature_SubGroup_Id.Name
dic['SFINAME'] = p.Feature_Items_Id.Name
featureDetail.append(dic)
featuresgroups = Role_Feature_Group_Map.objects.filter(Role_Id = loginrole.Role_Id.id)
request.session['feature_list'] = featureDetail
request.session['featuresgroups'] = featuresgroups
return render_to_response('UAM/index.html',{"contacts":featureDetail,'len':len(featureDetail)-1,'test1':"shiva",'test2':"shiva","featuresgroups":featuresgroups})
For this authent function how to write my logout function
(as I am new to Django)? Please go easy and give me the code for logout function.

Answer 1

I suggest using Django's built in authentication features instead of rolling out your own. Otherwise, you're bound to make many mistakes (such as storing plain text passwords, which I see it's what you're doing) and reinvent many wheels (such as session handling, groups and permissions, etc). If you need to store more information about users than Django supports, you can do it in the form or user profiles.
Anyway, if by "logged on" you mean "having those values in the session", to "log out" you just need to remove them, no?

Answer 2

It really is this easy:
from django.contrib.auth import logout
def logout_page(request):
logout(request)
return HttpResponseRedirect('/')