Django Unleashed

25.3.1 Informing the User of Login/Logout Actions

To begin, we can create a new file under user/signals.py.

Our first goal is to import our necessary tools. We need the actual signals from auth as well as the success() function from the messages app. We then import the @receiver() decorator, which allows us to register our function to be called when a specific signal is sent, as shown in Example 25.4.

Example 25.4: Project Code

user/signals.py in 4bd73cbe74

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1   from django.contrib.auth.signals import ( 2       user_logged_in, user_logged_out) 3   from django.contrib.messages import success 4   from django.dispatch import receiver

In Example 25.5, we first program display_login_message(), a function that displays ...