Use nicer URLs for user names with funny characters in them.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 9c4c085dd..495c61b61 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2007 UK Citizens Online Democracy. All rights reserved.
 # Email: francis@mysociety.org; WWW: http://www.mysociety.org/
 #
-# $Id: application_helper.rb,v 1.9 2007-10-30 15:03:03 francis Exp $
+# $Id: application_helper.rb,v 1.10 2007-10-30 17:31:31 francis Exp $
 
 module ApplicationHelper
 
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     end
     
     # Simplified links to our objects
+    # XXX See controllers/user_controller.rb for inverse
+    def simplify_url_part(text)
+        text.downcase!
+        text.gsub!(/ /, "-")
+        text.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9_-]/, "")
+        text
+    end
     
     def request_link(info_request)
         link_to h(info_request.title), show_request_url(:id => info_request)
@@ -53,7 +60,11 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     end
 
     def user_link(user)
-        link_to h(user.name), show_user_url(:name => user.name)
+        link_to h(user.name), show_user_url(:simple_name => simplify_url_part(user.name))
+    end
+
+    def info_request_link(info_request)
+        link_to h(info_request.title), show_request_url(:id => info_request)
     end
 
 end