Converts text into a SLUG.
On Jun 1, 7:32 pm, Stifan Kristi <[email protected]> wrote: > pardon me, what urlify is use for? i've already search in the book but > return a null. thank you so much. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:29 AM, pbreit <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's a validator if you want to save a slug to the DB: > >http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07?search=IS_SLUG > > > Here's how I do it. I have a computed field for my records: > > > def slug(self): > > return '%s-%s' % (urlify(self.item.title, max_length=50), self.item.id > > ) > > > And a function to return the id from a slug: > > > def id_from_slug(slug): > > id = slug.split('-')[-1] > > if id.isdigit(): > > return id > > else: > > return None > > > So I can do things like: > > <a href="{{=URL('default', 'item', extension='', args=item.slug)}}"> > > and > > item = db(db.item.id==id_from_slug(request.args(0))).select().first()
