Need to shorten your URLs like Google does? Something like http://example.com/some/really/long/path/ to http://example.com/.../path/? Here's my simplistic approach:
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
from django import template
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
import re
register = template.Library()
@register.filter
def fancyurlize(value, arg):
length = int(arg)
text = value
for char in (u'%', u'?'):
arr = value.split(char)
if len(arr) > 1:
text = arr[0]
if len(text) > length:
arr = re.split(r'(?<!/)/(?!/)', text)
if len(arr) > 2:
text = u'/'.join((arr[0], u'...', arr[-1]))
if len(text) > 0 and text[-1] != u'/':
text = u''.join((text, u'/'))
return_value = u'<a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a>' % (
conditional_escape(value),
conditional_escape(text),
)
return mark_safe(return_value)
fancyurlize.is_safe = True