On 1/6/06, Clank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Newbie-Q. I have a gaggle of URLs of form > > /archive/<number>.html > > I want to update & serve their content dynamically; it's obvious how to > get almost-there with URLs like > > /archive/?number=<number> > > but I want the old URLs to work. > > It's a MovableType site, so there are probably other people with my > problem. Is there a plausible answer in TG, or do I need to (say) run > behind Apache and use mod_rewrite on those URLs?
What you want is to expose a default() method. Take a look at page 4 of the 20-minute Wiki tutorial, on http://www.turbogears.org/docs/wiki20/page4.html, for an example. Have /archive point at a class that looks something like the following: class ArchiveByNumber(object): @turbogears.expose(html="...") def default(self, number): if number.endswith('.html'): number = number[:-5] if number.endswith('.htm'): number = number[:-4] number = int(number) # In actual code, you'd use a validator here # Fetch the appropriate page from the database The default() method will take any remaining URL components and receive them as arguments. If you had, for example: class Archive(object): @turbogears.expose(html="...") def default(self, *args): logDebug("Received args %s...", args) And your user fetched the URL "/archive/2004/11/30/my-blog-post.htm", your function would log "Received args ('2004', '11', '30', 'my-blog-post.htm')..." I hope this helps. -- Robin Munn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key 0xD6497014
