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by James Bennett
Practical Django Projects, Second Edition
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Title Page
Copyright
Contents at a Glance
Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Django
What's a Web Framework and Why Should I Want One?
Saying Hello to Django
Saying Hello to Python
Installing Django
Taking Your First Steps with Django
Exploring Your Django Project
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 2 Your First Django Site: A Simple CMS
Configuring Your First Django Project
Putting Together the CMS
Introducing the Django Template System
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 3 Customizing the Simple CMS
Adding Rich-Text Editing
Adding a Search System to the CMS
Improving the Search View
Improving the Search Function with Keywords
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 4 A Django-Powered Weblog
Compiling a Feature Checklist
Writing a Django Application
Projects vs. Applications
Standalone and Coupled Applications
Creating the Weblog Application
Designing the Models
Building the Entry Model
Basic Fields
Slugs, Useful Defaults, and Uniqueness Constraints
Authors, Comments, and Featured Entries
Different Types of Entries
Categorizing and Tagging Entries
Writing Entries Without Writing HTML
Finishing Touches
The Weblog Models So Far
Writing the First Views
Using Django's Generic Views
Decoupling the URLs
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 5 Expanding the Weblog
Writing the Link Model
Views for the Link Model
Setting Up Views for Categories
Using Generic Views (Again)
Views for Tags
Cleaning Up the URLConf Module
Handling Live Entries
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 6 Templates for the Weblog
Dealing with Repetitive Elements: The Power of Inheritance
How Template Inheritance Works
Limits of Template Inheritance
Defining the Base Template for the Blog
Setting Up Section Templates
Displaying Archives of Entries
Entry Index
Yearly Archive
Monthly and Daily Archives
Entry Detail
Defining Templates for Other Types of Content
Extending the Template System with Custom Tags
How a Django Template Works
A Simple Custom Tag
Writing a More Flexible Tag with Arguments
Writing the LatestContentNode
Registering and Using the New Tag
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 7 Finishing the Weblog
Comments and django.contrib.comments
Implementing Model Inheritance and Abstract Models
Installing the Comments Application
Performing Basic Setup
Retrieving Lists of Comments for Display
Moderating Comments
Using Signals and the Django Dispatcher
Building the Automatic Comment Moderator
Adding Akismet Support
Sending E-mail Notifications
Using Django's Comment-Moderation Features
Adding Feeds
Creating the LatestEntriesFeed Class
Generating Entries by Category: A More Complex Feed Example
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 8 A Social Code-Sharing Site
Compiling a Feature Checklist
Setting Up the Application
Building the Initial Models
The Language Model
The Snippet Model
Testing the Application
Building Initial Views for Snippets and Languages
CSS for pygments Syntax Highlighting
Views for Languages
An Advanced View: Top Authors
Improving the View of Top Authors
Adding a top_languages View
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 9 Form Processing in the Code-Sharing Application
A Brief Tour of Django's Form System
A Simple Example
Validating the Username
Validating the Password
Creating the New User
How Form Validation Works
Processing the Form
Writing a Form for Adding Code Snippets
Writing a View to Process the Form
Writing the Template to Handle the add_snippet View
Automatically Generating the Form from a Model Definition
Simplifying Templates That Display Forms
Editing Snippets
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 10 Finishing the Code-Sharing Application
Bookmarking Snippets
Adding Basic Bookmark Views
Creating a New Template Tag: {% if_bookmarked %}
Parsing Ahead in a Django Template
Resolving Variables Inside a Template Node
Using RequestContext to Automatically Populate Template Variables
Adding the User Rating System
Rating Snippets
Adding an {% if_rated %} Template Tag
Retrieving a User's Rating
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 11 Practical Development Techniques
Using Version-Control Systems to Track Your Code
A Simple Example
Version-Control Tools and Hosting Options
Choosing and Using a VCS
Using Isolated Python Environments to Manage Software
Using Build Tools
Using a Deployment Tool
Simplifying Your Django Development Process
Living Without Projects
Using Relative Paths in Settings
Dealing with Settings That Change for Different Environments
Unit-Testing Your Applications
Looking Ahead
CHAPTER 12 Writing Reusable Django Applications
One Thing at a Time
Staying Focused
Advantages of Tightly Focused Applications
Developing Multiple Applications
Drawing the Lines Between Applications
Splitting Up the Code-Sharing Application
Building for Flexibility
Flexible Form Handling
Flexible Template Handling
Flexible Post-Form Processing
Flexible URL Handling
Taking Advantage of Django's APIs
Staying Generic
Distributing Django Applications
Python Packaging Tools
Writing a setup.py Script with distutils
Standard Files to Include in a Package
Documenting an Application
Looking Ahead
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