I would like to show dynamic pretty URLs from the root of my app, such
as:
mysite/pretty-url
instead of:
mysite/blog/post/show/pretty-url
Do I need routes for this?
Richard
On Jan 22, 1:38 am, pistacchio <pistacc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi to all!
> a couple of questions. i'm writing a simple blog to get used to web2py
> and get my hands dirty with it (and i love it so far!).
>
> each blog post has a title. as i want that title to be in the url when
> retrieving the post, i need what in django is called a "slug" field,
> or a pretty, url-friendly version of a string so that "This is
> the first POST of my awesome site!!!!! :D I like accents èàò"
> becomes "this-is-the-first-post-of-my-awesome-site-i-like-accents-
> aeo". using this i can have pretty urls like mysite/blog/post/show/
> this-is-the-first-post-of-my-awesome-site-i-like-accents-aeo.
>
> i've looked into the documentation but i could not find a web2py
> utility to have this. i have put together my "urlify" function to
> solve the problem, but i think this is a pretty common task. when it's
> done, if it's not there yet and i simply couldn't find it, i'll
> contribute it.
>
> in the very same phase i had a problem populating this field. i use
> SQLFORM to create the "insert new post" form. of course the "slug"
> field is not visible as it is derived by another field (title). how
> can i assign automatically a value to that field, in the "insert"
> phase, based on another value?
>
> this is a stripped down example of the code i use right now, but i'm
> not sure it is the most elegant way to solve the problem
>
> ------------------------
> # MODEL
>
> db.define_table('post',
> Field('title', length=100, required=True,
> unique=True),
> Field('slug', length=100, unique=True),
> Field('text', 'text'))
>
> # CONTROLLER
>
> form.vars.slug = utils.urlify(request.vars.title)
> form.accepts(request.vars, session)
>
> ------------------------
>
> one last question: as far as i've seen, form.accepts works both as
> "insert record" and "validate form". if i don't have validators
> (requires=), how can i specify "only if the form has submitted do
> form.accepts"?
>
> thanks in advance,
> gustavo
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