slug

I am working on a django project and would like to include a slug at the end of the url, as is done here on stackoverflow.com: http://example.com/object/1/my-slug-generated-from-my-title The object ID will be used to look up the item, not the slug -- and, like stackoverflow.com, the slug won't matter at all when getting the link (just in displaying it). Qestion : is there a downside (or upside) to generating the slug dynamically, rather than saving it as an actual database field ? For example (not real code): class Widget(models.Model): title = models.CharField() def _slug(self): return

I'm trying to use a conditional statement to check if either of two words (blog & news) appear in the slug. If one shows up I will display one menu, if the other then its corresponding menu shows. Using PHP: $url = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; $isItBlog = strpos($url, 'blog'); $isItNews = strpos($url, 'news'); if ($isItBlog!==false) { //url contains 'blog' } if ($isItNews!==false) { //url contains 'news' } http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php slugContainsBlog = "blog" if(window.location.href.indexOf(slugContainsBlog) > -1) { //Contains Blog } slugContainsNews = "news" if(window

I got few functions in placed which is not working as I wanted. The slug is automicatlly created on the fly depend on the post title. Example: If a post title is "test" then the slug will be "test" My problem is that, what if theirs duplicate entry of post title "test" which means that the slug will be duplicated too. For that reason I have create 2 functions to handle this for me. This function checks if the slug exist in the database function slug_exist($x){ global $db; $sql = "SELECT post_name FROM posts WHERE post_name=\"$x\""; $query = $db->select($sql); if($db->num_rows() > 0){ return

I'm creating a video site. I want my direct urls to a video to look like example.com/watch/this-is-a-slug-1 where 1 is the video id. I don't want the slug to matter though. example.com/watch/this-is-another-slug-1 should point to the same page. On SO, /questions/id is the only part of the url that matters. How can I do that? Stack Overflow uses the form example.com/watch/1/this-is-a-slug which is easier to handle. You're opening a can of worms if you want the ID to be at the end of the slug token, since then it'll (for example) restrict what kinds of slugs you can use, or just make it harder

I have a function for creating unique slug for a page title. It checks if the slug is available in the pages table then creates a unique slug by adding a '-int' accordingly. The function works fine for the first three entries eg for 'test slug' entered three time will create 'test-slug-1', 'test-slug-2' and 'test-slug-3'. Then after that I get an error "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded" for the fourth entry. There should be some problem with the logic, can anyone help me find it please.Below is the code: function createSlug($title, $table_name, $field_name) { global

How can the first URL segment be extracted from the full URL? The first URL segment should be cleaned to replace the - with a space . Full URL http://www.domain.com/River-Island/River-Island-T-Shirt-with-Triangle-Girl-Print/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2516020 Desired Outpput River Island You can use: $url = 'http://www.domain.com/River-Island/River-Island-T-Shirt-with-Triangle-Girl-Print/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2516020'; $parsed = parse_url($url); $path = $parsed['path']; $path_parts = explode('/', $path); $desired_output = $path_parts[1]; // 1, because the string begins with slash (/) $page =

I'm guessing this is going to involve regexp or something, but I'll give it a shot. At the minute, a user can break a website by typing something similar to £$(*£$(£@$&£($ in the title field, which is converted into a slug using Django slugify . Because none of these characters can be converted, Django returns an error. My question is, what should I put in the form validation method to raise a forms.ValidationError when the user uses a title like this? Thanks. This question is half a decade old so in updating my question I should explain that I'm at least nodding to the past where some