Django 1.0 web site development : build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework / Ayman Hourieh ; reviewer, Patrick Chan.
2009
TK5105.8885.D54 H68 2009eb
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Title
Django 1.0 web site development : build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework / Ayman Hourieh ; reviewer, Patrick Chan.
Author
Caption Title
Django 1.0 website development
ISBN
9781847196798 (electronic bk.)
1847196799 (electronic bk.)
1282063243
9781282063242
9786612063244
6612063246
9781847196781
1847196780 (pbk.)
1847196799 (electronic bk.)
1282063243
9781282063242
9786612063244
6612063246
9781847196781
1847196780 (pbk.)
Imprint
Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2009.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (v, 257 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
TK5105.8885.D54 H68 2009eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)418782104
Summary
Annotation Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don_t Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code. This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples. Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example. In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.
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Includes index.
Annotation Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don_t Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code. This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples. Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example. In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.
Includes index.
Annotation Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don_t Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code. This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples. Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example. In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.
Formatted Contents Note
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction to Django
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
Multilingual support
History of Django
Summary
ch. 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
ch. 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.
Note continued: 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
ch. 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
ch. 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
SQI injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
ch. 6 Enhancing the User Interface with AJAX.
Note continued: 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 basic searching
Implementing live searching
Editing bookmarks in place
Implementing basic bookmark editing
Implementing in-place editing of bookmarks
Auto-completion of tags
Summary
ch. 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.
Note continued: Displaying comments and a comment form
Creating comment templates
Summary
ch. 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
ch. 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
ch. 10 Building User Networks
Building friend networks
Creating the friendship data model
Writing views to manage friends
The friends list view.
Note continued: 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
ch. 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
Local memory 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
Deploying Django
The production web server
The production database
Turning off debug mode
Changing configuration variables
Setting error pages
Summary
ch. 12 What Next?
Custom template tags and filters
Model managers and custom SQL
Generic views.
Note continued: Contributed sub-frameworks
Flatpages
Sites
Markup filters
Humanize
Sitemaps
Cross-Site Request Forgery protection (CSRF)
Message system
Subscription system
User scores
Summary.
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
Multilingual support
History of Django
Summary
ch. 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
ch. 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.
Note continued: 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
ch. 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
ch. 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
SQI injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
ch. 6 Enhancing the User Interface with AJAX.
Note continued: 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 basic searching
Implementing live searching
Editing bookmarks in place
Implementing basic bookmark editing
Implementing in-place editing of bookmarks
Auto-completion of tags
Summary
ch. 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.
Note continued: Displaying comments and a comment form
Creating comment templates
Summary
ch. 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
ch. 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
ch. 10 Building User Networks
Building friend networks
Creating the friendship data model
Writing views to manage friends
The friends list view.
Note continued: 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
ch. 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
Local memory 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
Deploying Django
The production web server
The production database
Turning off debug mode
Changing configuration variables
Setting error pages
Summary
ch. 12 What Next?
Custom template tags and filters
Model managers and custom SQL
Generic views.
Note continued: Contributed sub-frameworks
Flatpages
Sites
Markup filters
Humanize
Sitemaps
Cross-Site Request Forgery protection (CSRF)
Message system
Subscription system
User scores
Summary.
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