Create profile Urls in django

Question

I am trying to make my first ever Django app. I have made a simple form where a user can enter a username. When the user clicks on submit, I want to redirect him to the url containing that username.

For example, Lets say my form is in the url www.mydomain.com/form

if the user enters the username = 'myname, I want to take him to the url www.mydomain.com/myname and display Hello myname, Welcome to www.mydomain.com.

Any idea how can I achieve that?

Edit

here is what i am currently doing

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import include, url

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', 'temp.views.home',name='home'),
    url(r'^temp/$', 'temp.views.temp',name='temp'),
    url(r'^entry/(?P<entry>[A-Za-z0-9_.\-~]+)','temp.views.mimic',name='mimic'),
]

views.py

    from django.shortcuts import render
    from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect,HttpResponse
    def home(request):
        return render(request,'home.html',{})

    def temp(request):
        entry=request.POST['entry']
        print entry
        return HttpResponseRedirect("/entry/"+entry)

    def mimic(request,entry):
        return HttpResponse(entry)

home.html

<form method="POST" action="/temp/">{% csrf_token %}
<INPUT name='entry'>
<input type='submit' text='done'>
</form>

Now my question is can i somehow avoid this temp part in both urls and views n do the whole redirection in one step?

P.S. i know that i need to define a few checks on the form. I will add them later. currently lets assume that the entry made by the user matches with the regex defined in the url

I'm not sure exactly where you are having difficulty with this. Getting the data from the form? redirecting? what? — Daniel Roseman
what did you try so far? with some specific bug would be easier to figure out what you are missing — doniyor
If you don't want a separate temp view, why don't you do that in the index view? — Daniel Roseman
I'm guessing you created a temp app? You don't need to do that. What are you trying to achieve in this application? If you are just trying to learn the language, your use case is not one that is well suited to learning Django. — Jordan Reiter

allo allo · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-08T16:02:04

What you need:

a Form Class for input of the profile name
- name = forms.CharField(...)
- a clean_name(self) method raising ValidationError for unknown profiles
a view myformview
- with displays the form for GET-Requests
- validates the form for POST-Requests and then uses django.shortcuts.redirect with your profile view and the name.
your profile view of course