Using Django

Introductions to all the key parts of Django you’ll need to know:

• How to install Django
  • Install Python
  • Install Apache and mod_wsgi
  • Get your database running
  • Remove any old versions of Django
  • Install the Django code
• Models and databases
  • Models
  • Making queries
  • Aggregation
  • Search
  • Managers
  • Performing raw SQL queries
  • Database transactions
  • Multiple databases
  • Tablespaces
  • Database access optimization
  • Database instrumentation
  • Examples of model relationship API usage
• Handling HTTP requests
  • URL dispatcher
  • Writing views
  • View decorators
  • File Uploads
  • Django shortcut functions
  • Generic views
  • Middleware
  • How to use sessions
• Working with forms
  • HTML forms
  • Django’s role in forms
  • Forms in Django
  • Building a form
  • More about Django Form classes
  • Working with form templates
  • Further topics
• Templates
  • Support for template engines
  • The Django template language
• Class-based views
  • Introduction to class-based views
  • Built-in class-based generic views
  • Form handling with class-based views
  • Using mixins with class-based views
  • Basic examples
  • Simple usage in your URLconf
  • Subclassing generic views
• Migrations
  • The Commands
  • Backend Support
  • Workflow
  • Dependencies
  • Migration files
  • Adding migrations to apps
  • Historical models
  • Considerations when removing model fields
  • Data Migrations
  • Squashing migrations
  • Serializing values
  • Supporting multiple Django versions
• Managing files
  • Using files in models
  • The File object
  • File storage
• Testing in Django
  • Writing and running tests
  • Testing tools
  • Advanced testing topics
• User authentication in Django
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Django’s cache framework
  • Setting up the cache
  • The per-site cache
  • The per-view cache
  • Template fragment caching
  • The low-level cache API
  • Downstream caches
  • Using Vary headers
  • Controlling cache: Using other headers
  • Order of MIDDLEWARE
• Conditional View Processing
  • The condition decorator
  • Shortcuts for only computing one value
  • Using the decorators with other HTTP methods
  • Comparison with middleware conditional processing
• Cryptographic signing
  • Protecting the SECRET_KEY
  • Using the low-level API
• Sending email
  • Quick example
  • send_mail()
  • send_mass_mail()
  • mail_admins()
  • mail_managers()
  • Examples
  • Preventing header injection
  • The EmailMessage class
  • Email backends
  • Configuring email for development
• Internationalization and localization
  • Overview
  • Definitions
• Logging
  • A quick logging primer
  • Using logging
  • Configuring logging
  • Django’s logging extensions
  • Django’s default logging configuration
• Pagination
  • Example
  • Using Paginator in a view
  • Paginator objects
  • InvalidPage exceptions
  • Page objects
• Security in Django
  • Cross site scripting (XSS) protection
  • Cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection
  • SQL injection protection
  • Clickjacking protection
  • SSL/HTTPS
  • Host header validation
  • Session security
  • User-uploaded content
  • Additional security topics
• Performance and optimization
  • Introduction
  • General approaches
  • Caching
  • Understanding laziness
  • Databases
  • HTTP performance
  • Template performance
  • Using different versions of available software
• Serializing Django objects
  • Serializing data
  • Deserializing data
  • Serialization formats
  • Natural keys
• Django settings
  • The basics
  • Designating the settings
  • Default settings
  • Using settings in Python code
  • Altering settings at runtime
  • Security
  • Available settings
  • Creating your own settings
  • Using settings without setting DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
• Signals
  • Listening to signals
  • Defining and sending signals
  • Disconnecting signals
• System check framework
  • Writing your own checks
• External packages
  • Localflavor
  • Comments
  • Formtools