The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

✍ Scribed by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 466
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Django, the Python-based equivalent to Ruby’s Rails Web development framework, is one of the hottest topics in Web development today. Its creator (and co-author of this book) Adrian Holovaty has become a superstar of sorts because of the compelling array of Web applications he’s built using Django, including most notably http://chicagocrime.org. Holovaty and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss have created this book as the definitive guide to the technology.

Django: Web Development Done Right is divided into three parts, with the first introducing Django fundamentals such as installation and configuration, and creating the components that ultimately work together to power a Django-driven website. Part II delves into the more sophisticated features of Django, such as outputting non-HTML content like RSS feeds and PDFs, caching, and user management. Part III is a detailed reference to Django’s many configuration options and commands. This book serves as both the ultimate tutorial and the go-to reference on this popular framework.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to Django....Pages 3-9
Getting Started....Pages 11-16
The Basics of Dynamic Web Pages....Pages 17-30
The Django Template System....Pages 31-58
Interacting with a Database: Models....Pages 59-82
The Django Administration Site....Pages 83-94
Form Processing....Pages 95-106
Advanced Views and URLconfs....Pages 107-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Generic Views....Pages 125-133
Extending the Template Engine....Pages 135-155
Generating Non-HTML Content....Pages 157-174
Sessions, Users, and Registration....Pages 175-196
Caching....Pages 197-208
Other Contributed Subframeworks....Pages 209-226
Middleware....Pages 227-233
Integrating with Legacy Databases and Applications....Pages 235-240
Extending Django’s Admin Interface....Pages 241-249
Internationalization....Pages 251-264
Security....Pages 265-273
Deploying Django....Pages 275-294
Back Matter....Pages 295-447

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems