Question

In my application data about a entry is displayed detailing their information. You can navigate between the entries via a hyperlink.
So far the code:

<a href="/parks/{{ park.id }} ">{{park.name}}</a>

Has been suffient in dealing with this. The id is captured in the urls.py and onto views.py

The problem I now face is to deal with my ‘location’ entry. Examples of locations are ‘Europe, UK’, ‘USA, New York’.
I know that:

<a href="/parks/{{ park.location }} ">{{park.location}}</a>

with:

url(r'^location/(?P<park_location>\d+)$', Location_Main),

won’t work, due to the spaces and commas etc.

How would I resolve this?
I would also like the ‘location’ view and ‘location’ url to handle the location of a parent company say ()

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Why not pass pass park.id and then in view get the park object and then get its location:

the url:

url(r'^location/(?P<park_id>\d+)$', Location_Main, name="park_location"),

the template:

<a href="{% url park_location park.id %}">{{park.location}}</a>

the view:

def Location_Main(request, park_id):
    park = get_object_or_404(Park, pk=park_id)
    location = park.location

Alternatively send the location as GET parameter:

the url:

url(r'^location/$', Location_Main, name="park_location"),

the template:

<a href="{% url park_location %}?location={{park.location}}">{{park.location}}</a>

the view:

def Location_Main(request):
    location = request.GET.get('location')