Add a SlugField to the Page model, and populate it based on the title
(this can be done automatically either via the admin's
prepopulated_fields, or via a custom model save() method)
class Page(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
slug = models.SlugField()
Then use a regex of the following form to pull the slug into your
view:
(r'^(?P<unit_id>\d+)/(?P<page_slug>[\w-]+)/$',
'project.app.views.unit_page'),
Then in your view:
def unit_page(request, unit_id, page_slug):
the_page = Page.objects.get(slug=PageSlug)
Do the same for the Unit model and regex matching. Adjust as
necessary to fit your actual models.
On Jul 7, 2:13 pm, Rodion Raskolnikiv <noah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To clarify, I would like to take the current url form of:
>
> /dept_id/page_id/ (which looks like /2/13/)
>
> into a url that looks like this:
> /accounting/policy_for_travel_expenses/ (which puts the title of the
> element in place of the element ID)
>
> I am getting at the elements by ID this way:
> (r'^(?P<unit_id>\d+)/$', 'project.app.views.unit_index'),
> (r'^(?P<unit_id>\d+)/(?P<page_id>\d+)/$',
> 'project.app.views.unit_page'),
>
> I am not sure how *[\w\d\-]+* would fit into my url configuration, I
> am still learning the very basics.
>
> On Jul 7, 9:54 am, Daniel Lathrop <daniel.lath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not quite clear on what you're asking, but if the issue is how to write
> > a regex for slugs: The regular expression you need for slugs is *[\w\d\-]+*
>
> > Hope that helps.
>
> > Daniel
> > ---------------------------
> > Daniel Lathrop
>
> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Rodion Raskolnikiv <noah...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > Greetings!
> > > I am trying to implement a very simple (yet elegant) solution for a
> > > university departmental website in django. In designing my urls, I
> > > desired to have them follow this pattern:
> > > university.edu/department/page_title_made_into_slug
>
> > > However, I couldn't get it working or find any doc that pointed out
> > > how to do it, so I temporarily settled for:
> > > univeristy.edu/1/14 (where 1 is the department ID and 14 is the
> > > page ID)
>
> > > This is how I have my URLs set up right now:
> > > (r'^$', project.app.views.index'),
> > > (r'^(?P<unit_id>\d+)/$', 'project.app.views.unit_page'),
>
> > > I have not actually set the pages to display yet, I thought that I
> > > would ask here before I did that ...
>
> > > Could anyone direct me to a solution so that I could have my URLs the
> > > way that I want them?
>
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