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Views
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Two views are included which, between them, handle the process of
first registering and then activating new user accounts; both views
are found in ``registration.views``.


``activate``
============

Activate a ``User``'s account from an activation key, if their key is
valid and hasn't expired.

By default, use the template ``registration/activate.html``; to
change this, pass the name of a template as the keyword argument
``template_name``.

**Required arguments**

``activation_key``
    The activation key to validate and use for activating the
    ``User``.
    
**Optional arguments**

``extra_context``
    A dictionary of variables to add to the template context. Any
    callable object in this dictionary will be called to produce the
    end result which appears in the context.

``template_name``
    A custom template to use.

**Context:**

``account``
    The ``User`` object corresponding to the account, if the
    activation was successful. ``False`` if the activation was not
    successful.
    
``expiration_days``
    The number of days for which activation keys stay valid after
    registration.

Any extra variables supplied in the ``extra_context`` argument (see
above).

**Template:**
    
registration/activate.html or ``template_name`` keyword argument.


``register``
============

Allow a new user to register an account.
    
Following successful registration, issue a redirect; by default, this
will be whatever URL corresponds to the named URL pattern
``registration_complete``, which will be
``/accounts/register/complete/`` if using the included URLConf. To
change this, point that named pattern at another URL, or pass your
preferred URL as the keyword argument ``success_url``.
    
By default, ``registration.forms.RegistrationForm`` will be used as
the registration form; to change this, pass a different form class as
the ``form_class`` keyword argument. The form class you specify must
have a method ``save`` which will create and return the new ``User``,
and that method must accept the keyword argument ``profile_callback``
(see below).

To enable creation of a site-specific user profile object for the new
user, pass a function which will create the profile object as the
keyword argument ``profile_callback``. See
``RegistrationManager.create_inactive_user`` in the file ``models.py``
for details on how to write this function.

By default, use the template ``registration/registration_form.html``;
to change this, pass the name of a template as the keyword argument
``template_name``.

**Required arguments**

None.

**Optional arguments**

``form_class``
    The form class to use for registration.

``extra_context``
    A dictionary of variables to add to the template context. Any
    callable object in this dictionary will be called to produce the
    end result which appears in the context.

``profile_callback``
    A function which will be used to create a site-specific profile
    instance for the new ``User``.

``success_url``
    The URL to redirect to on successful registration.

``template_name``
    A custom template to use.

**Context:**

``form``
    The registration form.
    
Any extra variables supplied in the ``extra_context`` argument (see
above).

**Template:**

registration/registration_form.html or ``template_name`` keyword
argument.