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Django 1.0 Template Development
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Django 1.0 Template Development
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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An Introduction to the Django Template System
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An Introduction to the Django Template System
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What are templates?
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Overview of the Django template system
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Exploring how Django handles requests
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Understanding the template system syntax
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Creating our demo application
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Summary
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Views, URLs, and Generic Views
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Views, URLs, and Generic Views
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An overview
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Creating the application
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Mapping URLs to views
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Creating views
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Putting the views together
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Comparing views and generic views
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Summary
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Template Context
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Template Context
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The context explained
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Using the context values in your templates
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Context rendering shortcuts
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Context processors
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Using the Built-In Tags and Filters
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Using the Built-In Tags and Filters
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Built-in filter reference
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Built-in tag reference
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Loading and Inheriting Templates
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Loading and Inheriting Templates
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Configuring the template system
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Finding a home for the template files
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Working with the template loaders
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Setting up the error handling templates
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Breaking templates into reusable pieces
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Extending templates with inheritance
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Inheriting from multiple child templates
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Appending to blocks
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Template strategy
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Using include files
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Serving Multiple Templates
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Serving Multiple Templates
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Considering the different approaches
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Setting up our example
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Serving printable pages
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Creating site themes
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Serving different templates by domain name
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Redirecting users to the mobile site (optional)
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Custom Tags and Filters
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Custom Tags and Filters
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Examining the built-in tags and filters
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Writing your own template filters
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Writing your own template tags
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Pagination
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Pagination
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An Overview
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Verifying our application setup
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Exploring pagination using the Django shell
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Using pagination in your views
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Putting navigation into the templates
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Pagination with generic views
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Summary
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Customizing the Admin Look and Feel
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Customizing the Admin Look and Feel
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Overriding the admin templates
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Customizing the admin header
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Adding a new link box to the admin
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Customizing the admin color scheme
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Caching Your Pages
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Caching Your Pages
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An overview
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Exploring the available cache systems
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Setting up your cache system
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Caching individual views
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Caching pieces of templates
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Low-level caching
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Caching your whole site
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General caching strategies
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Working with outside caches
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Internationalization
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Internationalization
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Exploring i18n
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Creating an example application
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Configuring your project for i18n
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Installing libraries for i18n translation
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Marking strings as translatable
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Creating message files
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Enabling automatic language preference
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Index
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Index

Comparing views and generic views

Now that we've seen both views and the generic views, you may be wondering why you would choose to use one over the other. The answer is usually found in the complexity of what you are trying to accomplish.

Don't let the simplicity of generic views fool you; entire sites have been written with only generic views. They can be much more complex than our simple examples were in this chapter, taking many additional arguments for specific functionality.

Try to use generic views when you can, and fall back to regular views when the complexity exceeds what you feel comfortable trying to do in a generic view. You may discover that what you want to do can be accomplished in a generic view, but that it's much simpler to do the same with a regular view.

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