diff -r 182f216da4a8 -r ededea9ad08b reg/views.py
--- a/reg/views.py	Fri Apr 09 11:46:35 2010 +0530
+++ b/reg/views.py	Fri Apr 09 12:28:58 2010 +0530
@@ -1,11 +1,29 @@
-from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, redirect
-
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 
+from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, redirect
+
 from workshop.reg import forms as reg_forms
 
-def login(request):
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+
+def homepage(request):
+    """ see if the user is active.
+    If not, only show the re send activation email link.
+    else show all the options in homepage.
+    """
+
+    user = request.user
+
+    if not user.is_authenticated():
+        return HttpResponse('not logged in<br><a href="/reg/login">login</a>')
+    elif not user.is_active:
+        return HttpResponse('not active<br /><a href="/reg/logout">logout</a>')
+    else:
+        return HttpResponse('you are ogey<br /><a href="/reg/logout">logout</a>')
+
+def user_login(request):
     """ get the user object from e-mail and then check for password.
     """
 
@@ -18,13 +36,23 @@
         if form.is_valid():
             email = form.cleaned_data['email']
             password = form.cleaned_data['password']
-            username = User.objects.get(email__iexact=email)
+            username = User.objects.get(email__iexact=email).username
 
-            user = authenticate(username, password)
+            user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
             login(request, user)
             return redirect('/reg')
         else:
             return render_to_response('login.html', {'form':form})
     else:
-        form = LoginForm()
+        form = reg_forms.LoginForm()
         return render_to_response('login.html', {'form':form})
+
+def user_logout(request):
+    """ simply logout the user and redirect to homepage.
+    """
+
+    logout(request)
+    print "logged out"
+    return redirect('/reg')
+
+