How can I get the reverse url for a Django Flatpages template

Question

How can I get the reverse url for a Django Flatpages template

Answer 1

Include flatpages in your root urlconf:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ('^pages/', include('django.contrib.flatpages.urls')),
)

Then, in your view you can call reverse like so:

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

reverse('django.contrib.flatpages.views.flatpage', kwargs={'url': '/about-us/'})
# Gives: /pages/about-us/

In templates, use the {% url %} tag (which calls reverse internally):

<a href='{% url django.contrib.flatpages.views.flatpage url="/about-us/" %}'>About Us</a>

Answer 2

I prefer the following solution (require Django >= 1.0).

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS+= ('django.contrib.flatpages',)

urls.py

urlpatterns+= patterns('django.contrib.flatpages.views',
    url(r'^about-us/$', 'flatpage', {'url': '/about-us/'}, name='about'),
    url(r'^license/$', 'flatpage', {'url': '/license/'}, name='license'),
)

In your templates

[...]
<a href="{% url about %}"><span>{% trans "About us" %}</span></a>
<a href="{% url license %}"><span>{% trans "Licensing" %}</span></a>
[...]

Or in your code

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
[...]
reverse('license')
[...]

That way you don't need to use django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware and the reverse works as usual without writing so much code as in the other solutions.

Cheers.

Answer 3

According to this django documentation for flatpages

You can simply do

{% load flatpages %}
{% get_flatpages as flatpages %}
<ul>
    {% for page in flatpages %}
        <li><a href="{{ page.url }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

In your template.

Answer 4

When you create any flatpage, you need to specify an URL which is saved as part of the model. Hence you can retrieve the URL from any flatpage object. In a template:

{{ flatpage.url }}

Remapping flatpage URLs in urls.py and then having to use reverse sort of defeats the purpose of the flatpages app.