No, you must set unique=True argument manual for slug field On 24 сент, 23:39, Florian Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. September 2007 schrieb Alex Koshelev: > > > Slug is very good when you want to create "fine" urls. You can convert > > (using prepopulate_from param) your title field of entry to slug and > > use it for entry's permalink. > > But of course you can use entry's id(integer value) for url mapping > > If I understand correctly I prepopulate my slug field with the value from the > title field (I understand you that it is the other way around). > > Anyway... does the slug field guarantees that the URL is unique? > > Regards, > > Florian > > > On 23 сент, 17:12, Florian Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am about to develop a blogging application for my site (it's also a > > > learning Django app, so please don't point me to existing projects ;-) > > > > Since I do want to omit to change my entire app due to mistakes I had > > > made while designing the model I would like to discuss my concept here > > > before starting to develop. > > > > Right now the app should support only one Blog so there is only one > > > model: BlogEntry: > > > > class BlogEntry(models.Model): > > > title = models.CharField(max_length=100) > > > content = models.TextField() > > > creationDate = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) > > > > eventually I will add an FileField or ImageField for attachments. > > > What about the Slug Field. I've read the docs but I'm not sure if it > > > makes any sense here? How is it used normally? > > > > Another point is how to build an URL to identify a BlogEntry instance. I > > > could use the automatically added id field, like: xgm.de/blog/132286302. > > > Are the ids usually usable directly as part of the URLs or are there any > > > potential non-usable characters? I know this depends on the DB backend. > > > Development will be done on sqlite, production use on MySQL. > > > This is what I prefer ATM. > > > > Of couse I will also use a date based generic view to provide a archive > > > view on the blog. > > > > Another possibility would be to take the content field into account when > > > constructing the URL: xgm.de/blog/My_first_entry. To make it unique I > > > could prepend or append an unique random id or a part of the date.
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