How can I customize Django authentication views?

How can I customize Django authentication views?

You can customize Django authentication views by subclassing the built-in views or creating your own views. What specific customization do you have in mind?

I want to change the login template and add some extra fields.

You can override the LoginView and specify your custom template in the template_name attribute. For extra fields, you can create a custom form that inherits from AuthenticationForm.

Can you show me an example of a custom login form?

Sure! Here's a simple example:

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm

class CustomLoginForm(AuthenticationForm):
    extra_field = forms.CharField(max_length=100, required=False)

You can then use this form in your custom login view.

Thanks! How do I link this form to my view?

In your custom view, set the authentication_form attribute to your CustomLoginForm. Here's how:

from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView

class CustomLoginView(LoginView):
    authentication_form = CustomLoginForm
    template_name = 'your_template.html'