Question

I have a question: how to get the current path of the url. Let’s say, I have 3 navigation bars, about , blog and contact page. In each page, I have facebook, twitter and a manual email a friend button. When I clicked the email a friend button, and the current URL is http://www.example.com/about, the current URL is now already http://www.example.com/emailafriend. How can I get the http://www.example/about? Also in blog and contact. Please help me. Thanks.

Answer 1

How does your email a friend button work? Is it a django view that takes the current URL and emails it? If so, you don’t want the “current” URL, which, as you note, is actually the email a friend URL. What you want to do is pass the URL you want to share as a URL parameter, ie:

/share?url=http://www.example.com/blog

Adding more info based on comments:

When I was referencing URL above, I was not referring to your django URL configuration. Let’s take a step back.

On your About page you have a link to email a friend, right? That link is probably generated in your template, but it’s the same on every page. Something like:

<a href="/emailafriend">Email a friend</a>

Instead of this, try this:

<a href="/emailafriend?url={{ request.get_full_path }}">Email a friend</a>

Now you need to make your email_a_friend view handle this. It can get the url via

request.get('url', '').

Some additional information:

You might want to escape the {{ request.get_full_path }} function so that it’s escaped and URL safe, then you’ll have to unescape it in your view. Once you get the URL back to your view, you can do as you please with it.

{{ request.get_full_path|urlencode }}