Routing in Django verus Nette Framework

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DJANGO

In urls.py

# urls like "articles/2011/tutorial03" or "articles/2011/tutorial03.html"

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'articles/(?P<year>(?U)\\d+)/(?P<item>(?U)[^/]+)(?:\\.htm(?:l)?)?/?\$', 'articles.detail'),
)

In template:

<p><a href="/articles/{{ article.year }}/{{ article.id }}">The Article</a></p>

• Regular expression is hard to read.
• Any change of URL means to change some templates.
• Redirect to the prefered URL must developer provide itself.

Nette Framework

In bootstrap.php

$router[] = new new Route('articles/<year \d+>/<item>[.htm[l]]', 'Articles:detail');

In template:

<p><a n:href="Articles:detail $article.year, $article.id">The Article</a></p>

• Route mask is easy to read.
• Any change of URL means to change one line in bootstrap.php.
• Redirect to the prefered URL is done automatically.