Learning Website Development with Django Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
• The MVC Pattern in Web Development
• Why Python?
• Why Django?
• Tight Integration between Components
• Object-Relational Mapper
• Clean URL Design
• Automatic Administration Interface
• Advanced Development Environment
• Multi-Lingual Support
• History of Django
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started
• Installing the Required Software
• Installing Python
• Installing Python on Windows
• Installing Python on UNIX/Linux
• Installing Python on Mac OS X
• Installing Django
• Installing Django on Windows
• Installing Django on UNIX/Linux and Mac OS X
• Installing a Database System
• Creating Your First Project
• Creating an Empty Project
• Setting up the Database
• Launching the Development Server
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Building a Social Bookmarking Application
• A Word about Django Terminology
• URLs and Views: Creating the Main Page
• Creating the Main Page View
• Creating the Main Page URL
• Models: Designing an Initial Database Schema
• The Link Data Model
• The User Data Model
• The Bookmark Data Model
• Templates: Creating a Template for the Main Page
• Putting It All Together: Generating User Pages
• Creating the URL
• Writing the View
• Designing the Template
• Populating the Model with Data
• Summary

• Chapter 4: User Registration and Management
• Session Authentication
• Creating the Login Page
• Enabling Logout Functionality
• Improving Template Structure
• User Registration
• Django Forms
• Designing the User Registration Form
• Account Management
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Introducing Tags
• The Tag Data Model
• Creating the Bookmark Submission Form
• Restricting Access to Logged-in Users
• Methods for Browsing Bookmarks
• Improving the User Page
• Creating a Tag Page
• Building a Tag Cloud
• A Word on Security
• SQL Injection
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
• Ajax and Its Advantages
• Using an Ajax Framework in Django
• Downloading and Installing jQuery
• The jQuery JavaScript Framework
• Element Selectors
• jQuery Methods
• Hiding and Showing Elements
• Accessing CSS Properties and HTML Attributes
• Manipulating HTML Documents
• Traversing the Document Tree
• Handling Events
• Sending Ajax Requests
• What Next?
• Implementing Live Searching of Bookmarks
• Implementing Searching
• Implementing Live Searching
• Editing Bookmarks in Place
• Implementing Bookmark Editing
• Implementing In-Place Editing of Bookmarks
• Auto-Completion of Tags
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Voting and Commenting
• Sharing Bookmarks on the Main Page
• The SharedBookmark Data Model
• Modifying the Bookmark Submission Form
• Browsing and Voting for Shared Bookmarks
• The Popular Bookmarks Page
• Commenting on Bookmarks
• Enabling the Comments Application
• Creating a View for Comments
• Displaying Comments and a Comment Form
• Creating Comment Templates
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Creating an Administration Interface
• Activating the Administration Interface
• Customizing the Administration Interface
• Customizing Listing Pages
• Overriding Administration Templates
• Users, Groups and Permissions
• User Permissions
• Group Permissions
• Using Permissions in Views
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Advanced Browsing and Searching
• Adding RSS Feeds
• Creating the Recent Bookmarks Feed
• Customizing Item Fields
• Creating the User Bookmarks Feed
• Linking Feeds to HTML Pages
• Advanced Searching
• Retrieving Objects with the Database API
• Advanced Queries with Q Objects
• Improving the Search Feature
• Organizing Content into Pages (Pagination)
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Building User Networks
• Building Friend Networks
• Creating the Friendship Data Model
• Writing Views to Manage Friends
• The Friends List View
• Creating the "Add Friend" View
• Inviting Friends Via Email
• The Invitation Data Model
• The "Invite a Friend" Form and View
• Handling Activation Links
• Improving the Interface with Messages
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Extending and Deploying
• Internationalization (i18n)
• Marking Strings as Translatable
• Creating Translation Files
• Enabling and Configuring the i18n System
• Improving Performance with Caching
• Enabling Caching
• Simple Caching
• Database Caching
• File System Caching
• Memcached
• Configuring Caching
• Caching the Whole Site
• Caching Specific Views
• Unit Testing
• The Test Client
• Testing the Registration View
• Testing the "Save Bookmark" View
• Deploying Django
• The Production Web Server
• The Production Database
• Turning Off Debug Mode
• Changing Configuration Variables
• Setting Error Pages
• Summary

• Chapter 12: What Next?
• Custom Template Tags and Filters
• Model Managers and Custom SQL
• Generic Views
• Contributed Sub-Frameworks
• Flatpages
• Sites
• Markup Filters
• Humanize
• Sitemaps
• Cross-site Request Forgery Protection
• Message System
• Subscription System
• User Scores
• Summary

• Index