Practical Django Projects

Cover -- 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? -- Say Hello to Django -- Say Hello to Python -- Installing Django -- 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 -- A Quick Introduction to 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 -- Feature Checklist -- Writing a Django Application -- Projects vs. Applications -- Standalone and Coupled Applications -- Creating the Weblog Application -- Designing the Models -- 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 -- How Did Django Do That? -- 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 -- Handling Live Entries -- Looking Ahead -- CHAPTER 6 Templates for the Weblog -- Dealing with Repetitive Elements: The Power of Inheritance -- HowTemplate Inheritance Works -- Limits of Template Inheritance -- Defining the Base Template for the Blog -- Section Templates -- Archives of Entries -- Entry Index -- Yearly Archive -- Monthly and Daily Archives -- Entry Detail -- 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 Compilation Function -- Writing the LatestContentNode -- Registering and Using the New Tag -- Looking Ahead -- CHAPTER 7 Finishing the Weblog -- Comments and django.contrib.comments -- Installing the Comments Application -- Basic Setup -- Retrieving Lists of Comments for Display -- Comment Moderation -- Signals and the Django Dispatcher -- Building the Automatic Comment Moderator -- Adding Akismet Support -- E-mail Notification of Comments -- Dealing with Moderated Comments in Public-Facing Templates -- Adding Feeds -- LatestEntriesFeed -- Entries by Category:A More Complex Feed Example -- Looking Ahead -- CHAPTER 8 A Social Code-Sharing Site -- Feature Checklist -- Setting Up the Application -- Building the Initial Models -- The Language Model -- The Snippet Model -- Testing the Snippets Application -- 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.