That sounds like a very cool project! Things like that are always fun to create

Yeah you're right, that's definitely not the the most secure. Do you know of a more secure alternative I could try instead?

I'd suggest using forms.Form for a LoginForm containing e.g.

username = forms.CharField(max_length=150) password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput)

and then a view to instantiate form with request.POST (if request.POST) like:

form = LoginForm(request.POST)

and then if form.is_valid() you can clean data using

username = form.cleaned_data['username']

and the same for password.

Then:

user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)

and then check if user is not None then login(request, user)

Note that login and authenticate come from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login

Hope that helps.

Thank you, Django Forms do look promising. I’ll definitely look into more secure alternatives to the current implementation.

...how is that more secure?

My initial thoughts for this project is it's intended to be a place for you to create a digital business card as a place to put links and other information, it's more like a Linktree than an actual business card, although I do want the user to be able to print out their cards to be used physically eventually.

Right now it's a bit simpler to have the user create their account first, as it's mostly intended for them to immediately be saving it into their account so they can have it ready to be shared with others, or to print out once that feature gets added. In future having an option for the user to test it out first would be a good idea though

Yeah, I don't see the point of forcing users to create an account just to try out the app. I wouldn't be surprised if you had an extremely large percent of garbage input in your database.

Thankfully, you didn't actually verify the email address, but if you did, that's probably the point where I would have gave up.

Yeah, that’s a good suggestion thank you, I will be implementing a way for people to test it out and then create the account only if they want to save/share the card. And yes I can confirm, there is quite the amount of garbage data. Thank you for the feedback!

Thanks for pointing that out, I figured out why that's happening, it'll be fixed in the next release And it's currently in open alpha, it's not yet finished. I have a lot of plans on how to offer more customization options in future.