On Aug 7, 6:16 pm, David <ww...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My project is Web-based and I work in Django environment on Linux. Let
> me give a Scenario first.
>
> A user whose username is "peter" logins into "www.myfoo.com" online.
> After his username/password get authenticated, he arrives this webpage
> "www.myfoo.com/user_login".   On this page it looks like this.
>
> Welcome Peter
> (1.) Go to my profile
> (2.) Check my total credit points
> (3.) ....
>
> (1.), (2.), (3), etc, are all links. If peter clicks one of them, then
> he will be redirected to a new webpage. For example, if he clicks
> (1.), then he will be transferred to webpage "www.myfoo.com/peter/
> profile/".  For this webpage there is a def (or module) "user_profile
> (request)" in View. This module needs to get this URI (or at least "/
> peter/profile/) and parse it so that peter's profile can be retrieved
> from a database.
>
> Now my question is: how can the module "user_profile(request)" get
> "peter"? Or, how can the module get the URI?
>
> os.environ[...] does not work here as this is not cgi. request.user is
> not good either as it gives in-exact result.
>
> Any ideas and suggestions?
>
> Thanks so much.

Surely the username is just the parameter to the user_profile
function? Getting parameters from URLs is absolutely basic Django
stuff, covered in the tutorial. I'd recommend reading that then
posting here if you have any more questions.
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