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Django 1.2 E-commerce

By : Jesse Legg
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Django 1.2 E-commerce

By: Jesse Legg

Overview of this book

<p>Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It provides an excellent basis to build e-commerce websites because it can be deployed fast and it responds quickly to changes due to its ability to handle content problems. Django with its proven strengths is all you need to build powerful e-commerce applications with a competitive edge. <br /><br />This book explores how the Django web framework and its related technologies can power the next leap forward for e-commerce and business on the Web. It shows you how to build real-world applications using this rapid and powerful development tool.<br /><br />The book will enable you to build a high quality e-commerce site quickly and start making money. It starts with the ambitious task of using Django to build a functional e-commerce store in less than 30 minutes, and then proceeds to enhance this design through the rest of the book. The book covers the basics of an e-commerce platform like product catalogs, shopping carts, and payment processing. By the end of the book, you will be able to enhance the application by adding a fully-functional search engine, generating PDF-based reports, adding interactivity to the user-interface, selling digital goods with micropayments, and managing deployment and maintenance tasks.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Django 1.2 e-commerce
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Simplifying searching with django-sphinx


You can download the django-sphinx application from its repository on GitHub by visiting the following URL and clicking on the Download button: http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/.

It is also available through the easy_install tool by issuing the following command:

$ sudo easy_install django-sphinx

Once installed, you can add the django-sphinx layer to any model and take advantage of a very simple interface to search and retrieve Django model objects from your database tables. The only requirement is to create the source and indexes exactly as we did earlier and specify which index django-sphinx should search when you attach it to your models.

For example, to use django-sphinx on our Product model from chapter 2, we would change the model definition to include the SphinxSearch manager.

from djangosphinx.models import SphinxSearch

class Product(models.Model):
    category = models.ForeignKey('CatalogCategory',  
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