On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, nbv4 <cp368...@ohio.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm looking into adding prettier URLs into my site with the help of
> slugs. I've never done something like this before, so I'm doing a lot
> of reading and am having trouble "getting" slugs. When creating URLs,
> couldn't you just do do something like "example.com/45/slug-goes-
> here"? Then have the view only use the 45 (the ID) to look up the blog
> entry (or whatever). Then it checks to see if the slug matches, if it
> does then carry on, if not, issue a redirect with the correct slug. It
> seems like to me this is the easiest way to go about this, but in my
> google searches, this is Not The Right Way (TM). It seems that the way
> you're supposed to do it involves a seperate slug field that gets
> stored in the database. What is the point of this? I'm about to
> implement this the way I described above. Is there anything I'm
> missing?
>
In general, some of us don't really care to expose the 45 part of that url.
It is often a lot simpler to have a slug stored in the db and have it be the
field that people use to look up entries. While I wouldn't say your way is
wrong, the slug and the ID are redundant; they are both referring to the
same thing. It helps SEO and humans to have short, concise and readable
uris, so when you look at my blog post /python-rocks-my-socks/ you know what
you are getting yourself into. Why put the extra ID there? You could also
compute the uri on the fly if you don't want to store the slug in the DB,
but that would require a lot of processing and essentially the same database
lookup (WHERE `slug` EXACT 'python-rocks-my-socks') or something worse
(WHERE `slug` IREGEX 'crazy regex processing'). It is easier to just store
the slug IMO.
>
> Also, is there some kind of "slugify" function build into django? I
> know theres the slugify template tag, but what about something not in
> that I can use in my models and views?
Filters are nothing more than functions in Django, so:
In [1]: from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
In [2]: slugify('Python rocks my socks')
Out[2]: u'python-rocks-my-socks'
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