django username in url, instead of id

Question

in a mini virtual community, i have a profile_view function, so that i can view the profile of any registered user. The profile view function has as a parameter the id of th

Answer 1

You don't show what you have tried, or where you are having trouble. This is fairly simple, after all - just pass a username string to the function instead of an integer, and look up based on that.

def profile_view(request, username):
    u = User.objects.get(username=username)

and modify your url to allow strings rather than integers:

url(r'^profile_view/(?P\w+)/$', 
                       profile_view,
                       name='profile_view'),