I'm trying to grab the currently logged in user and display at the the top of every view. I've searched all over the place for this, but I can't ever find a straight answer for my problem.

I was able to get it in the form view, but for some reason I can't display it in a normal view. It's driving me nuts.

from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
from django.views.generic import ListView, DetailView, FormView
from django.template import RequestContext, loader, Context
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from boards.models import Links, LinksCreateForm, Category
from django.contrib.auth.models import User


def get_user(request):
    current_user = request.get.user
    return current_user


class LinksListView(ListView):
    model = Links


class LinksDetailView(DetailView):
    model = Links


class LinksCreateView(FormView):
    template_name = 'boards/link_create.html'
    form_class = LinksCreateForm

    def form_valid(self, form):
        name = form.cleaned_data['name']
        description = form.cleaned_data['description']
        user = self.request.user
        category = Category.objects.get(id=form.cleaned_data['category'].id)
        link = Links(name=name, description=description, user=user, category=category)
        link.save()
        self.success_url = '/boards/'

        return super(LinksCreateView, self).form_valid(form)
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