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Django 1.0 Template Development

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Django 1.0 Template Development
Dec, 2008 | 272 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.0 Template Development
Django 1.0 Template Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
An Introduction to the Django Template System
An Introduction to the Django Template System
What are templates?
Overview of the Django template system
Exploring how Django handles requests
Understanding the template system syntax
Creating our demo application
Summary
2
Views, URLs, and Generic Views
Views, URLs, and Generic Views
An overview
Creating the application
Mapping URLs to views
Creating views
Putting the views together
Comparing views and generic views
Summary
3
Template Context
Template Context
The context explained
Using the context values in your templates
Context rendering shortcuts
Context processors
Summary
4
Using the Built-In Tags and Filters
Using the Built-In Tags and Filters
Built-in filter reference
Built-in tag reference
Summary
5
Loading and Inheriting Templates
Loading and Inheriting Templates
Configuring the template system
Finding a home for the template files
Working with the template loaders
Setting up the error handling templates
Breaking templates into reusable pieces
Extending templates with inheritance
Inheriting from multiple child templates
Appending to blocks
Template strategy
Using include files
Summary
6
Serving Multiple Templates
Serving Multiple Templates
Considering the different approaches
Setting up our example
Serving printable pages
Creating site themes
Serving different templates by domain name
Redirecting users to the mobile site (optional)
Summary
7
Custom Tags and Filters
Custom Tags and Filters
Examining the built-in tags and filters
Writing your own template filters
Writing your own template tags
Summary
8
Pagination
Pagination
An Overview
Verifying our application setup
Exploring pagination using the Django shell
Using pagination in your views
Putting navigation into the templates
Pagination with generic views
Summary
9
Customizing the Admin Look and Feel
Customizing the Admin Look and Feel
Overriding the admin templates
Customizing the admin header
Adding a new link box to the admin
Customizing the admin color scheme
Summary
10
Caching Your Pages
Caching Your Pages
An overview
Exploring the available cache systems
Setting up your cache system
Caching individual views
Caching pieces of templates
Low-level caching
Caching your whole site
General caching strategies
Working with outside caches
Summary
11
Internationalization
Internationalization
Exploring i18n
Creating an example application
Configuring your project for i18n
Installing libraries for i18n translation
Marking strings as translatable
Creating message files
Enabling automatic language preference
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Scott Newman

Reviewers

Jan V Smith

Dave Fregon

Patrick Chan

Senior Acquisition Editor

Douglas Paterson

Development Editor

Ved Prakash Jha

Technical Editors

Abhinav Prasoon

John Antony

Copy Editor

Sneha Kulkarni

Editorial Team Leader

Mithil Kulkarni

Project Manager

Abhijeet Deobhakta

Project Coordinator

Leena Purkait

Indexer

Rekha Nair

Proofreader

Chris Smith

Production Coordinator

Aparna Bhagat

Cover Work

Aparna Bhagat

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