Django 1.0 web site development : build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework / Ayman Hourieh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hourieh, Ayman.

Series:

From Technologies to Solutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Django (Electronic resource).

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 systemCreating your first project; Creating an empty project; Setting up the database; Launching the development server; Summary; Chapter 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; 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 templatePopulating the model with data; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; SQL injection

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)Summary; Chapter 6: Enhancing the User Interface with AJAX; 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 bookmarksAuto-completion of tags; Summary; Chapter 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; Displaying comments and a comment form; Creating comment templates; Summary; Chapter 8: Creating an Administration Interface; Activating the administration interface; Customizing the administration interface

Customizing listing pages

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06324-3

9786612063244

1-84719-679-9

OCLC:

798536283