Hi everyone,

Thanks for the suggestions. The problem is a little more subtle than
my example suggested.

For instance, if you also had categories of users and wanted to be
able to list the users in each category,  a 'human-friendly' url
scheme might look like this:

www.mysite.com/users/matt --> go to my area
www.mysite.com/users/jess --> go to Jess' area
www.mysite.com/users/mark --> go to Mark's area
www.mysite.com/users/premium --> list all premium members
www.mysite.com/users/economy --> list all economy members

It's a contrived example, but if the categories were also numerous and
data-driven, you'd need a different solution to those mentioned. I
could always use "www.mysite.com/users/categories/premium", but it
doesn't have quite the same feel.


On Jul 30, 3:56 pm, "Brad Siegfreid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If all you have is a list of users to look through the suggestions work just
> fine. Otherwise, it's easier to set a common root for that particular
> lookup, such as mysite.com/user/matt. This avoids the problem of mixing in a
> variable URL value with other parts of your site. It also maps nicely to a
> Django app as well.
>
> On 7/29/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello list,
>
> > I was wondering if the following is possible with the URLconf:
>
> > I'd like the URL regex to match part of a URL if it exists within a
> > specific list of values. For example, if you wanted to direct users to
> > their area of your site, you might have something like this:
>
> >www.mysite.com/matt--> go to my area
> >www.mysite.com/jess--> go to Jess' area
> >www.mysite.com/mark--> go to Mark's area
>
> > In this situation you'd want a URL match for every user on your site,
> > which is obviously database driven. I'd like to be able to pull a list
> > of all the users out of the database and use a single line in my
> > URLconf to acheive the above.
>
> > This could all be acheived using another view to determine whether the
> > given name was a valid user, and if so direct you to the appropriate
> > view, but wouldn't that prevent you using Django's generic views?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Matt.


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