How To Tango With Django 1.5.4

• 1. Overview
  • 1.1. Why Work with this Book?
  • 1.2. What You will Learn
  • 1.3. Technologies and Services
  • 1.4. Rango: Initial Design and Specification
    • 1.4.1. Design Brief
  • 1.5. Exercises
  • 1.6. N-Tier Architecture
  • 1.7. Wireframes
  • 1.8. Pages and URL Mappings
  • 1.9. Entity-Relationship Diagram
  • 1.10. Summary
    • 1.10.1. Working with The Official Django Tutorials
• 2. Getting Ready to Tango
  • 2.1. Using the Terminal
    • 2.1.1. Core Commands
  • 2.2. Installing the Software
    • 2.2.1. Installing Python
    • 2.2.2. Setting Up the PYTHONPATH
    • 2.2.3. Using Setuptools and Pip
    • 2.2.4. Installing Django
    • 2.2.5. Installing the Python Imaging Library
    • 2.2.6. Installing Other Python Packages
    • 2.2.7. Sharing your Package List
  • 2.3. Integrated Development Environment
  • 2.4. Exercises
    • 2.4.1. Virtual Environments
    • 2.4.2. Code Repository
• 3. Django Basics
  • 3.1. Testing your Setup
  • 3.2. Creating your Django Project
  • 3.3. Creating a Django Application
  • 3.4. Creating a View
  • 3.5. Mapping URLs
  • 3.6. Basic Workflows
    • 3.6.1. Creating a new Django Project
    • 3.6.2. Creating a new Django application
  • 3.7. Exercises
    • 3.7.1. Hints
• 4. Templates and Static Media
  • 4.1. Using Templates
    • 4.1.1. Configuring the Templates Directory
    • 4.1.2. Dynamic Paths
    • 4.1.3. Adding a Template
  • 4.2. Serving Static Media
    • 4.2.1. Configuring the Static Media Directory
  • 4.3. Static Media Files and Templates
  • 4.4. The Static Media Server
  • 4.5. Basic Workflow
  • 4.6. Exercises
• 5. Models and Databases
  • 5.1. Rango’s Requirements
  • 5.2. Telling Django About Your Database
  • 5.3. Creating Models
  • 5.4. Creating and Synchronising the Database
  • 5.5. Generated SQL
  • 5.6. Django Models and the Django Shell
  • 5.7. Configuring the Admin Interface
  • 5.8. Creating a Population Script
  • 5.9. Basic Workflows
    • 5.9.1. Setting up your Database
    • 5.9.2. Adding a Model
  • 5.10. Exercises
    • 5.10.1. Hints
• 6. Models, Templates and Views
  • 6.1. Basic Workflow: Data Driven Pages
  • 6.2. Showing Categories on Rango’s Homepage
    • 6.2.1. Importing Required Models
    • 6.2.2. Modifying the Index View
    • 6.2.3. Modifying the Index Template
  • 6.3. Creating a Details Page
    • 6.3.1. URL Design and Mapping
    • 6.3.2. Category Page Workflow
    • 6.3.3. Category View
    • 6.3.4. Category Template
    • 6.3.5. Parameterised URL Mapping
    • 6.3.6. Modifying the Index View and Template
    • 6.3.7. Demo
  • 6.4. Exercises
    • 6.4.1. Hints
• 7. Fun with Forms
  • 7.1. Basic Workflow
  • 7.2. Page and Category Forms
    • 7.2.1. Creating ModelForm Classes
    • 7.2.2. Creating an Add Category View
    • 7.2.3. Creating the Add Category Template
    • 7.2.4. Mapping the Add Category View
    • 7.2.5. Modifying the Index Page View
    • 7.2.6. Demo
    • 7.2.7. Cleaner Forms
  • 7.3. Exercises
    • 7.3.1. Creating an Add Pages View, Template and URL Mapping
    • 7.3.2. Hints
• 8. User Authentication
  • 8.1. Setting up Authentication
  • 8.2. The User Model
  • 8.3. Additional User Attributes
  • 8.4. Creating a User Registration View and Template
    • 8.4.1. Creating the UserForm and UserProfileForm
    • 8.4.2. Creating the register() View
    • 8.4.3. Creating the Registration Template
    • 8.4.4. The register() View URL Mapping
    • 8.4.5. Linking Together
    • 8.4.6. Demo
  • 8.5. Adding Login Functionality
    • 8.5.1. Creating the login() View
    • 8.5.2. Creating a Login Template
    • 8.5.3. Mapping the Login View to a URL
    • 8.5.4. Linking Together
    • 8.5.5. Demo
  • 8.6. Restricting Access
    • 8.6.1. Restricting Access with a Decorator
  • 8.7. Logging Out
  • 8.8. Exercises
• 9. Working with Templates
  • 9.1. Reoccurring HTML and The Base Template
  • 9.2. Template Blocks
    • 9.2.1. Abstracting Further
  • 9.3. Template Inheritance
  • 9.4. Exercises
• 10. Cookies and Sessions
  • 10.1. Cookies, Cookies Everywhere!
  • 10.2. Sessions and the Stateless Protocol
  • 10.3. Setting up Sessions in Django
  • 10.4. A Cookie Tasting Session
    • 10.4.1. Testing Cookie Functionality
  • 10.5. Client Side Cookies: A Site Counter Example
  • 10.6. Session Data
  • 10.7. Browser-Length and Persistent Sessions
  • 10.8. Basic Considerations and Workflow
  • 10.9. Exercises
    • 10.9.1. Hint
• 11. Bootstrapping Rango
  • 11.1. Setting up The Base Template
    • 11.1.1. Download Bootstrap
    • 11.1.2. Download JQuery
    • 11.1.3. Including CSS/JS in The Base Template
    • 11.1.4. Structuring the Base Template
  • 11.2. Quick Style Change
    • 11.2.1. The Index Page
  • 11.3. The Login Page
    • 11.3.1. Other Form-based Templates
  • 11.4. The Registration Template
  • 11.5. The End Result
• 12. Adding External Search Functionality
  • 12.1. The Bing Search API
    • 12.1.1. Registering for a Bing API Key
  • 12.2. Adding Search Functionality
  • 12.3. Putting Search into Rango
    • 12.3.1. Adding a Search Template
    • 12.3.2. Adding the View
  • 12.4. Exercises
• 13. Making Rango Tango! Exercises
  • 13.1. Providing Categories on Every Page
  • 13.2. Searching Within a Category Page
  • 13.3. View Profile
  • 13.4. Track Page Click Throughs
    • 13.4.1. Hint
• 14. Doing the Tango with Rango!
  • 14.1. List Categories on Each Page
    • 14.1.1. Creating a Category List Template
    • 14.1.2. Updating the Base Template
    • 14.1.3. Creating Get Category List Function
    • 14.1.4. Updating Views
  • 14.2. Searching Within a Category Page
    • 14.2.1. Decommissioning Generic Search
    • 14.2.2. Creating a Search Form Template
    • 14.2.3. Updating the Category View
  • 14.3. View Profile
    • 14.3.1. Creating the Profile Template
    • 14.3.2. Creating Profile View
    • 14.3.3. Mapping the Profile View and URL
    • 14.3.4. Updating the Base Template
  • 14.4. Track Page Click Throughs
    • 14.4.1. Creating a URL Tracking View
    • 14.4.2. Mapping URL
    • 14.4.3. Updating the Category Template
    • 14.4.4. Updating Category View
• 15. AJAX, Django and JQuery
  • 15.1. Add a “Like Button”
    • 15.1.1. Workflow
    • 15.1.2. Updating Category Template
    • 15.1.3. Update the Category View
    • 15.1.4. Create a Like Category View
    • 15.1.5. Making the AJAX request
  • 15.2. Adding Inline Category Suggestions
    • 15.2.1. Workflow
    • 15.2.2. Parameterise the Get Category List Function
    • 15.2.3. Create a Suggest Category View
    • 15.2.4. Map View to URL
    • 15.2.5. Update Base Template
    • 15.2.6. Add AJAX to Request Suggestions
  • 15.3. Exercises
    • 15.3.1. Hints
• 16. Deploying Your Project
  • 16.1. Creating a PythonAnywhere Account
  • 16.2. The PythonAnywhere Web Interface
  • 16.3. Creating a Virtual Environment
    • 16.3.1. Virtual Environment Switching
  • 16.4. Cloning your Git Repository
    • 16.4.1. Setting Up the Database
  • 16.5. Setting up your Web Application
    • 16.5.1. Configuring the WSGI Script and its virtual environment
    • 16.5.2. Assigning Static Paths
    • 16.5.3. Bing API Key
    • 16.5.4. Turning off DEBUG Mode
  • 16.6. Log Files
  • 16.7. Exercises
• 17. Summary
• 18. A Git Crash Course
  • 18.1. Why Use Version Control?
  • 18.2. Git on Windows
  • 18.3. The Git System
  • 18.4. Setting up Git
    • 18.4.1. How to Clone a Remote Repository
    • 18.4.2. The Directory Structure
    • 18.4.3. Final Tweaks
  • 18.5. Basic Commands and Workflow
    • 18.5.1. 1. Starting Off
    • 18.5.2. 2. Doing Some Work!
    • 18.5.3. 3. Committing your Changes
    • 18.5.4. 4. Synchronising your Repository
    • 18.5.5. 5. Pushing your Commit(s)
  • 18.6. Recovering from Mistakes
  • 18.7. Exercises
• 19. A CSS Crash Course
  • 19.1. Including Stylesheets
  • 19.2. Basic CSS Selectors
  • 19.3. Element Selectors
    • 19.3.1. ID Selectors
    • 19.3.2. Class Selectors
  • 19.4. Fonts
  • 19.5. Colours and Backgrounds
    • 19.5.1. Text Colours
    • 19.5.2. Borders
    • 19.5.3. Background Colours
    • 19.5.4. Background Images
  • 19.6. Containers, Block-Level and Inline Elements
    • 19.6.1. Block-Level Elements
    • 19.6.2. Inline Elements
  • 19.7. Basic Positioning
    • 19.7.1. Floats
    • 19.7.2. Relative Positioning
    • 19.7.3. Absolute Positioning
  • 19.8. The Box Model
  • 19.9. Styling Lists
  • 19.10. Styling Links
  • 19.11. The Cascade
  • 19.12. Additional Reading
• 20. Javascript and JQuery
• 21. Test Driven Development
  • 21.1. Exercises
• 22. Acknowledgements

Indices and tables

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