On Monday 11 May 2009 07:35:37 pm Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Thierry <lamthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let's say I have a pet table: > > > > TABLE: Pet > > id name type > > ------------------------------ > > 1 Pluto dog > > 2 Foo cat > > 3 Goo fish > > > > I can access the pet page of each of the above by the following url: > > > > Pluto: localhost/pets/1/ > > Foo: localhost/pets/2/ > > Goo: localhost/pets/3/ > > > > I want the url for the pet page to look like the following: > > > > Pluto: localhost/pets/pluto-dog/ > > Foo: localhost/pets/foo-cat/ > > Goo: localhost/pets/goo-fish/ > > > > In a PHP web application that I have been working on before, there is > > an additional field in the Pet table which holds the url for each > > pet. Is that how it should be done in Django too? > > Since the urls just contain 2 fields that are both on the model I'd just > hook up the view at > > r'^(?P<type>\w+)-(?P<name>\w+)/$' >
After adding this to my patterns in urls.py url(r'^(?P<type>\w+)-(?P<name>\w+)/$', 'myproj.myview.myfun', name="pet_detail"), Then I would use the permalink decorator by adding get_absolute_url() to your model for the pets. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#get-absolute-url http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#the-permalink-decorator @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return ('pet_detail', (), {'type': self.type, 'name':self.name}) Then when using the model, I can do something like: pet = Pets.object.get(pk=1) pet.get_absolute_url() or in a template {{ pet.get_absolute_url }} To retrieve the url for the corresponding row. use the string method lower() to make the type and name lower case. i.e. self.type.lower(), self.name.lower() in get_absolute_url. > and then in the view you can filter by type and name individually. > Alex Mike -- "I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"
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