On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Dougal Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I've used a similar approach once - works fine. Although, you might want to > sacrifice such a short url for something that is easier to read/understand > that 'u' and 'g'. > > Cheers, > Dougal > > --- > Dougal Matthews - @d0ugal > http://www.dougalmatthews.com/ > > > > > 2009/3/15 ldm999 <[email protected]> > > >> I'm using Django Auth and would like to include username in my urls. >> So, eg, I might have urls like the following: >> >> - mysite.com/tom/books/moby-dick >> - mysite.com/dick/books/moby-dick >> - mysite.com/harry/books/catch-22 >> >> To further complicate things, I'd like to support groups too. So that >> first url param could be a group name (eg seattle-reading-club) >> >> So now I'm thinking of using a letter to designate if the url is for a >> user or a group. Something like: >> >> - mysite.com/u/tom/books/moby-dick >> - mysite.com/g/seattle-reading-group/moby-dick >> >> Anyone else done something like this? Any problems with this approach? >> >> > > > > Most people structure their URLs that way since Django makes it nice to have these pretty urls. That being said I'd probably write out the full user/group just because it makes the urls a little more self explanitory and it's not like it exposes some internal of your app. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
