Inexperienced with Django, but I have been playing with the Reddit API and it is easy and fun to use. I think I don't understanding something fundamental about template tags and urls in Django. All I really want to do is to have an href link to 'http://redd.it/' with the reddit id for the post after the slash.
My model is:
class Reddit_Model(models.Model):
reddit_title = models.CharField(max_length=500,default='')
reddit_score = models.CharField(max_length=20,default='')
reddit_id = models.CharField(max_length=20,default='')
reddit_url=models.URLField(blank=True,max_length=500)
And in the template if I use:
<a href="{{ entry.reddit_url }}">{{ entry.reddit_url }}</a>
I connect to the external URL as expected.
However that URL can be the external URL that someone put in their post, so if I want to go back to the persons post (for example a post that has a reddit_id of ge2oap) and I type into the browser http://redd.it/ge20ap it will go to the post as desired. However when I try to construct a template tag I run into problems. if I use
<a href="{{http://redd.it/{{entry.reddit_id}}}">http://redd.it/{{ entry.reddit_id }}</a>
and got
http://127.0.0.1:8000/mainapp/'http://redd.it'%20ge2oap
which I think makes sense, so I tried various URL template tag patterns
<a href="{% url 'http://redd.it/' entry.reddit_id %}">http://redd.it/{{ entry.reddit_id }}</a>
none of which work. I suppose I could create another field in the model. I looked at the redirect functions and the get_absolute_URL() in the docs, but didn't see how they could be used in this situation, so I suspect I am missing something obvious. Any suggestions?
<a href="{{http://redd.it/{{entry.reddit_id}}}">http://redd.it/{{ entry.reddit_id }}</a>
should be
<a href="http://redd.it/{{entry.reddit_id}}">http://redd.it/{{ entry.reddit_id }}</a>
as the first part of the href isn't a template variable. Note that you can't nest braces like that anyway.