Django Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Django Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Django's Position on the Web -- From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 -- Web 1.0 -- Web 2.0 -- What is Django? -- Django - a web framework -- The MVC framework -- Why use Django? -- Summary -- 2. Creating a Django Project -- Installing Python 3 -- Installing Python 3 for Windows -- Installing Python 3 for Linux -- Installing Python 3 for Mac OS -- Installing setuptools -- Installing setuptools for Windows -- Installing setuptools for Linux -- Installing setuptools for Mac OS -- Installing PIP -- Installing PIP for Windows -- Installing PIP for Linux -- Installing PIP for Mac OS -- Installing Django -- Installing Django for Windows -- Installing Django for Linux -- Installing Django for Mac OS -- Starting your project with Django -- Creating an application -- Configuring the application -- Summary -- 3. Hello World! with Django -- Routing in Django -- Regular expressions -- The uninterpreted characters -- The beginning and the end of the line -- The any character regular expression -- Character classes -- Validating the number of characters -- Creating our first URL -- Creating our first view -- Testing our application -- Summary -- 4. Working with Templates -- Displaying Hello world! in a template -- Injecting the data from the view to the template -- Creating dynamic templates -- Integrating variables in templates -- Conditional statements -- Looping in a template -- Using filters.

The upper and lower filters -- The lower filter -- The upper filter -- The capfirst filter -- The pluralize filter -- The escape and safe to avoid XSS filters -- The linebreaks filter -- The truncatechars filter -- Creating DRY URLs -- Extending the templates -- Using static files in templates -- Summary -- 5. Working with Models -- Databases and Django -- Migrations with South -- Installing South -- Using the South extension -- Creating simple models -- The UserProfile model -- The Project model -- The relationship between the models -- Creating the task model with relationships -- Extending models -- The admin module -- Installing the module -- Using the module -- Advanced usage of models -- Using two relationships for the same model -- Defining the str method -- Summary -- 6. Getting a Model's Data with Querysets -- The persisting model's data on the database -- Filling a model and saving it in the database -- Getting data from the database -- Getting multiple records -- Getting only one record -- Getting a model instance from the queryset instance -- Using the get parameter -- Saving the foreign key -- Updating records in the database -- Updating a model instance -- Updating multiple records -- Deleting a record -- Getting linked records -- Advanced usage of the queryset -- Using an OR operator in a queryset -- Using the lower and greater than lookups -- Performing an exclude query -- Making a raw SQL query -- Summary -- 7. Working with Django Forms -- Adding a developer without using Django forms -- Template of an HTML form -- The view using the POST data reception -- Adding a developer with Django forms -- CSRF protection -- The view with a Django form -- Template of a Django form -- The form based on a model -- The supervisor creation form -- Advanced usage of Django forms -- Extending the validation form -- Customizing the display of errors.

Using widgets -- Setting initial data in a form -- When instantiating the form -- When defining fields -- Summary -- 8. Raising Your Productivity with CBV -- The CreateView CBV -- An example of minimalist usage -- Working with ListView -- An example of minimalist usage -- Extending ListView -- The DetailView CBV -- An example of minimalist usage -- Extending DetailView -- The UpdateView CBV -- An example of minimalist usage -- Extending the UpdateView CBV -- The DeleteView CBV -- Going further by extending the CBV -- Using a custom class CBV update -- Summary -- 9. Using Sessions -- Creating and getting session variables -- An example - showing the last task consulted -- About session security -- Summary -- 10. The Authentication Module -- How to use the authentication module -- Configuring the Django application -- Editing the UserProfile model -- Adding a user -- Login and logout pages -- Restricting access to the connected members -- Restricting access to views -- Restricting access to URLs -- Summary -- 11. Using AJAX with Django -- Working with jQuery -- jQuery basics -- CSS selectors in jQuery -- Getting back the HTML content -- Setting HTML content in an element -- Looping elements -- Importing the jQuery library -- Working with AJAX in the task manager -- Summary -- 12. Production with Django -- Completing the development -- Selecting the physical server -- Selecting the server software -- Selecting the server database -- Deploying the Django website -- Installing PIP and Python 3 -- Installing PostgreSQL -- Installing virtualenv and creating a virtual environment -- Installing Django, South, Gunicorn, and psycopg2 -- Configuring PostgreSQL -- Adaptation of Work_manager to production -- Initial South migration -- Using Gunicorn -- Starting Nginx -- Summary -- A. Cheatsheet -- The field types in models -- The numerical field type.

The string field type -- The temporal field type -- Other types of fields -- Relationship between models -- The model meta attributes -- Options common to all fields of models -- The form fields -- Common options for the form fields -- The widget form -- Error messages (forms and models) -- The template language -- Template tags -- Loops in dictionaries -- Conditional statements -- The template filters -- The queryset methods -- Index.