web2py Application Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Deploying web2py
• Introduction
• Installing web2py on Windows (from source code)
• Installing web2py in Ubuntu
• Setting up a production deployment on Ubuntu
• Running web2py with Apache, mod_proxy, and mod_rewrite
• Running web2py with Lighttpd
• Running web2py with Cherokee
• Running web2py with Nginx and uWSGI
• Running web2py on shared hosts using CGI
• Running web2py on shared hosts with mod_proxy
• Running web2py from a user-defined folder
• Installing web2py as a service in Ubuntu
• Running web2py with IIS as a proxy
• Running web2py with ISAPI

• Chapter 2: Building Your First Application
• Introduction
• Improving the scaffolding application
• Building a simple contacts application
• Building a Reddit clone
• Building a Facebook clone
• Using crud.archive
• Converting an existing static site into a web2py application
• Creating semi-static pages (flatpages)
• Adding your custom logo
• Creating menus and submenus
• Customizing menus with icons
• Creating a navigation bar
• Using cookies to set the language
• Designing modular applications
• Speeding up downloads

• Chapter 3: Database Abstraction Layer
• Introduction
• Creating a new model
• Creating a model from a CSV file
• Batch upload of your data
• Moving your data from one database to another
• Creating a model from existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• Efficiently searching by tag
• Accessing your database from multiple applications
• Hierarchical category tree
• Creating records on demand
• OR, LIKE, BELONGS, and more on Google App Engine
• Replacing slow virtual fields with DB views

• Chapter 4: Advanced Forms
• Introduction
• Adding confirmation on form submit
• Searching data dynamically
• Embedding multiple forms in one page
• Detecting and blocking concurrent updates
• Creating a form wizard
• De-normalizing data temporarily
• Removing form labels
• Using fileuploader.js
• Uploading files using a LOADed component
• Making image thumbnails from uploaded images
• Monitoring upload progress
• Auto tooltips in forms
• Color picker widget
• Shortening text fields
• Creating multi-table forms
• Creating a multi-table form with references
• Creating a multi-table update form
• Star rating widget

• Chapter 5: Adding Ajax Effects
• Introduction
• Using jquery.multiselect.js
• Creating a select_or_add widget
• Using an autocompletion plugin
• Creating a drop-down date selector
• Improving the built-in ajax function
• Using a slider to represent a number
• Using jqGrid and web2py
• Improving data tables with WebGrid
• Ajaxing your search functions
• Creating sparklines

• Chapter 6: Using Third-party Libraries
• Introduction
• Customizing logging
• Aggregating feeds
• Displaying Tweets
• Plotting with matplotlib
• Extending PluginWiki with an RSS widget

• Chapter 7: Web Services
• Introduction
• Consuming a web2py JSON service with jQuery
• Consuming a JSON-RPC service
• JSON-RPC from JavaScript
• Making amf3 RPC calls from Flex using pyamf
• PayPal integration in Web2py
• PayPal web payments standard
• Getting Flickr photos
• Sending e-mails with Boto through Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Making GIS amps using mapscript
• Google groups and Google code feeds reader
• Creating SOAP web services

• Chapter 8: Authentication and Authorization
• Introduction
• Customizing Auth
• Using CAPTCHA on login failure
• Using pyGravatar to get avatars for user profile pages
• Multi-user and teacher modes
• Authenticating with Facebook using OAuth 2.0

• Chapter 9: Routing Recipes
• Introduction
• Making cleaner URLs with routes.py
• Creating a simple router
• Adding a URL prefix
• Associating applications with domains
• Omitting the application name
• Removing application name and controllers from URLs
• Replacing underscores with hyphens in URLs
• Mapping favicons.ico and robots.txt
• Using URLs to specify the language

• Chapter 10: Reporting Recipes
• Introduction
• Creating PDF reports
• Creating PDF listings
• Creating pdf labels, badges, and invoices

• Chapter 11: Other Tips and Tricks
• Introduction
• Using PDB and the embedded web2py debugger
• Debugging with Eclipse and PyDev
• Updating web2py using a shell script
• Creating a simple page statistics plugin
• Rounding corners without images or JavaScript
• Setting a cache.disk quota
• Checking if web2py is running using cron
• Building a Mercurial plugin
• Building a pingback plugin
• Changing views for mobile browsers
• Background processing with a database queue
• How to effectively use template blocks
• Making standalone applications with web2py and wxPython

• Index