On May 30, 2012, at 9:57 AM, pbreit wrote: > If you have your routes set up with a default app and default controller, you > could do something simple like: > > def u(): > row = db(db.auth_user.shortname==request.args(0)).select().first() > return dict(row=row) > > Which should support URLs like: > > http://www.myserver.com/u/johnsmith >
Notice that a URL like this can be implemented in two ways, with 'u' as a controller or as a function in the default controller. If u is a controller, then this URL would invoke its default function (so its functions would have to be listed), and the function name should be chosen so that it isn't likely to be a user name (that is, don't make the function name johnsmith...). Making u a function is the default controller is more straightforward, I think.
