Thanks Anthony. That's interesting syntax to use a validator!
Yes it works :) On Nov 30, 11:24 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're receiving the title from a form submission, you can use the > IS_SLUG validator on the title field, which will convert it to a slug > (remove non-alphanumeric characters and convert spaces to hyphens). You can > also use the validator on it's own: > > >>> title_slug = IS_SLUG()('Today is Wonderful!')[0] > >>> print title_slug > > today-is-wonderful > > Seehttp://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Validators. > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:09:33 AM UTC-5, lyn2py wrote: > > > If I want to create a link from a string, is there a function in > > web2py to do that? > > > For example I have a post title "Today is Wonderful!" and I want to > > create > > >> /blog/show/today-is-wonderful > > instead of > > >> /blog/show/today-is-wonderful%21 > > which gives a Invalid Request error... > > > Thanks!
