why not use slugs then? http://www.example.com/projects/username/my-cool-project/
sounds a lot nice than http://www.example.com/projects/0sdf0s463sdg0/ - bram On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One reason is because I believe string allows to store bigger amounts > of data, since IDs wouldn't be counted in base 10. E.g. YouTube videos > which are identified by random generated strings. > Another reason is because I want to keep things a bit more transparent > to the users. Instead of having a url like www.example.com/projects/3/, > I'd have something like www.example.com/projects/iuyf876ertg/ > I don't really want the user to know that his project is number 3... > > > > On Mar 31, 8:11 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 31-Mar-08, at 2:30 PM, Julien wrote: > > > > > I just thought I'd try to make it clearer what I'm after. Instead of > > > having numbers as ID for my objects, I'd like to have random strings > > > (e.g. "sadfwetbtyvt32452" or "fd70982876adhfd"...). Those strings have > > > to be unique across the table. > > > Is that easily achievable? Am I on the right track with the code > > > above? > > > > why? what do you hope to achieve by doing this? > > > > -- > > > > regards > > kghttp://lawgon.livejournal.comhttp://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ > > > > > -- http://freesound.iua.upf.edu http://www.smartelectronix.com http://www.musicdsp.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
