Slug is very good when you want to create "fine" urls. You can convert (using prepopulate_from param) your title field of entry to slug and use it for entry's permalink. But of course you can use entry's id(integer value) for url mapping
On 23 сент, 17:12, Florian Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am about to develop a blogging application for my site (it's also a learning > Django app, so please don't point me to existing projects ;-) > > Since I do want to omit to change my entire app due to mistakes I had made > while designing the model I would like to discuss my concept here before > starting to develop. > > Right now the app should support only one Blog so there is only one model: > BlogEntry: > > class BlogEntry(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=100) > content = models.TextField() > creationDate = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) > > eventually I will add an FileField or ImageField for attachments. > What about the Slug Field. I've read the docs but I'm not sure if it makes any > sense here? How is it used normally? > > Another point is how to build an URL to identify a BlogEntry instance. I could > use the automatically added id field, like: xgm.de/blog/132286302. Are the > ids usually usable directly as part of the URLs or are there any potential > non-usable characters? I know this depends on the DB backend. Development > will be done on sqlite, production use on MySQL. > This is what I prefer ATM. > > Of couse I will also use a date based generic view to provide a archive view > on the blog. > > Another possibility would be to take the content field into account when > constructing the URL: xgm.de/blog/My_first_entry. To make it unique I could > prepend or append an unique random id or a part of the date. > > Thanks for any ideas and comments! > > Florian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
