logout button

Date: March 23rd 2016
Last updated: March 23rd 2016

I got stumped by this because I didn't know how to use urls to create the logout button.

template with the logout button

<div class="headermenu">
    <a href="{% url 'surferprofile:logout' %}"
    style="text-decoration: none;">Logout
    </a>
</div>

urls.py
When a user clicks on the text "Logout", the call goes to urls.py using the name logout.

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

app_name = 'surferprofile'
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^logout/$', views.logout_user, name='logout'),
]

views.py
The logout_user() method simply redirects the user to the splash (welcome/landing) page. Obviously this assumes that there is a splash page to go to.

def logout_user(request):
    logout(request)
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/splash')