Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears(c) Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites

Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites

ISBN: 0132433885
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 202

Authors: Mark Ramm, Kevin Dangoor, Gigi Sayfan

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Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears: Using Python to Create Ajax-Powered Sites
Table of Contents
Copyright
Praise for Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears
Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: TurboGears Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Introduction to TurboGears
Section 1.1. Why TurboGears?
Section 1.2. The History of TurboGears
Section 1.3. TurboGears, Ajax, and Web 2.0
Section 1.4. Why TurboGears Values Being Pythonic
Section 1.5. What Can You Do with TurboGears?
Section 1.6. Coming Soon to a TurboGears Near You
Section 1.7. Summary
Chapter 2. Getting Started with TurboGears
Section 2.1. Installing TurboGears and SQLite
Section 2.2. Creating a Hello World Application
Section 2.3. Say Hi (Simple Template)
Section 2.4. Custom Greetings (Hello from the Controller)
Section 2.5. Summary
Chapter 3. The Architecture of a TurboGears Application
Section 3.1. What Is MVC?
Section 3.2. Design Patterns and Object-Oriented MVC
Section 3.3. Understanding SQLObject and TurboGears Models
Section 3.4. Understanding CherryPy and TurboGears Controllers
Section 3.5. Understanding Kid and TurboGears Views
Section 3.6. MVC Meets Ajax
Section 3.7. Summary
Part II: Building a Simple TurboGears Application
Chapter 4. Creating a Simple Application
Section 4.1. Building a Simple Bookmark Collection Site
Section 4.2. Testing TurboGears Applications
Section 4.3. A Simple Form to Add Bookmark
Section 4.4. Summary
Chapter 5. Enhancing Our Bookmark Application
Section 5.1. Updating Our Model
Section 5.2. Listing by Category
Section 5.3. Updating Our Form
Section 5.4. Tying Everything Together
Section 5.5. Selecting Categories
Section 5.6. Summary
Part III: Exploring a Real World TurboGears Application
Chapter 6. Exploring More Complex Models in WhatWhat Status
Section 6.1. What Is WhatWhat Status?
Section 6.2. Logging in and Using WhatWhat Status
Section 6.3. Exploring the WhatWhat Status Model
Section 6.4. Writing Better Model Classes
Section 6.5. Summary
Chapter 7. Controllers, Views, and JavaScript in the WhatWhat Status
Section 7.1. Dashboard Controller
Section 7.2. Dashboard Templates
Section 7.3. Adding a New Project
Section 7.4. Dashboard Controller new_project
Section 7.5. Summary
Chapter 8. RSS, Cookies, and Dynamic Views in WhatWhat Status
Section 8.1. Cookies and RecentChanges
Section 8.2. The Recent Changes Template
Section 8.3. WhatWhat Status Widgets
Section 8.4. Easy RSS with FeedController
Section 8.5. Summary
Chapter 9. Ajax and WhatWhat Status Projects
Section 9.1. Handling Ajax Requests
Section 9.2. Digging Into the Project Controller Methods
Section 9.3. A First Look at project.kid
Section 9.4. Summary
Part IV: SQLObject and TurboGears Models
Chapter 10. SQLObject Basics
Section 10.1. ORM Basics
Section 10.2. Basic SQLObject Features
Section 10.3. Simple Database Queries
Section 10.4. Summary
Chapter 11. Mastering SQLObject
Section 11.1. Mapping Relationships
Section 11.2. Straight SQL Queries
Section 11.3. Smart Queries
Section 11.4. Working with Large Result Sets
Section 11.5. Summary
Chapter 12. Customizing SQLObject Behavior
Section 12.1. Customizing SQLObject Classes with sqlmeta
Section 12.2. More-Advanced SQLObject Customization
Section 12.3. SQLObject and Inheritance
Section 12.4. SQLObject and Transactions
Section 12.5. Summary
Part V: TurboGears View Technologies
Chapter 13. Dynamic Templates with Kid
Section 13.1. Creating Dynamic Templates with Kid
Section 13.2. Beyond the Basics: Keeping Your Templates DRY (Don t Repeat Yourself)
Section 13.3. Bringing It All Together
Section 13.4. Summary
Chapter 14. Creating Better JavaScript with MochiKit
Section 14.1. How to Use This Chapter
Section 14.2. Introduction to MochiKit and Its Interactive Shell
Section 14.3. Base Functions
Section 14.4. Iterators in JavaScript
Section 14.5. The Document Object Model
Section 14.6. Using MochiKit.Logging to Debug
Section 14.7. Working with Color
Section 14.8. String Conversions and Value Formatting
Section 14.9. Summary
Chapter 15. Effective Ajax with MochiKit
Section 15.1. Handling Asynchronous EventsIncluding Ajax Requests
Section 15.2. Handling JavaScript Events with MochiKit.Signal
Section 15.3. Visual Effects for That Wow Factor
Section 15.4. Summary
Chapter 16. TurboGears Widgets: Bringing CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript Together in Reusable Components
Section 16.1. Understanding Widgets
Section 16.2. Form Widgets
Section 16.3. Compound Widgets
Section 16.4. Widgets and Validation
Section 16.5. CSS, JavaScript, and Widgets
Section 16.6. Creating Custom Widgets
Section 16.7. Anatomy of an Ajax Widget
Section 16.8. Summary
Part VI: CherryPy and TurboGears Controller Technologies
Chapter 17. CherryPy and TurboGears Decorators
Section 17.1. CherryPy URL Parsing
Section 17.2. CherryPy and the HTTP RequestResponse Cycle
Section 17.3. CherryPy Filters
Section 17.4. CherryPy and TurboGears Configuration
Section 17.5. Decorators
Section 17.6. Error and Exception Handling
Section 17.7. RESTful Resources in TurboGears
Section 17.8. Summary
Chapter 18. TurboGears Deployment
Section 18.1. Choosing Your Production Environment
Section 18.2. Using mod_rewrite or mod_proxy to Connect to CherryPy
Section 18.3. Running CherryPy on mod_python
Section 18.4. Other Ways of Running CherryPy behind a Web Server
Section 18.5. Scalability of Your Site
Section 18.6. Summary
Part VII: TurboGears Extras
Chapter 19. The TurboGears Toolbox and Other Tools
Section 19.1. Toolbox Overview
Section 19.2. ModelDesigner
Section 19.3. CatWalk
Section 19.4. WebConsole
Section 19.5. Widget Browser
Section 19.6. Admi18n and System Info
Section 19.7. The tg-admin Command
Section 19.8. Other TurboGears Tools
Section 19.9. Summary
Chapter 20. Internationalization
Section 20.1. Dealing with Unicode in Python
Section 20.2. Dealing with Unicode in TurboGears
Section 20.3. Translating Your Application
Section 20.4. Summary
Chapter 21. Testing a TurboGears Application
Section 21.1. Nose
Section 21.2. TurboGears testutil
Section 21.3. Mechanize
Section 21.4. Selenium
Section 21.5. Summary
Chapter 22. TurboGears Identity and Security
Section 22.1. Basic AuthenticationAuthorization with Identity
Section 22.2. Validating User Access with Identity
Section 22.3. Avoiding Common Security Pitfalls
Section 22.4. Summary
Part VIII: Appendix
Appendix A. SQLAlchemy
Section A.1. A Quick Tour of SQLAlchemy
Section A.2. SQLAlchemy in TurboGears
Section A.3. Data Mapper and Active Record
Section A.4. More about ActiveMapper
Section A.5. How Objects Are Cached in SQLAlchemy
Section A.6. Should I Use SQLAlchemy or SQLObject?
Section A.7. Migrating a Project to SQLAlchemy
Section A.8. Deployment Configuration
Section A.9. Application Configuration
Section A.10. Class Definitions
Section A.11. Changing Calls to byName Methods
Section A.12. Updating Queries
Section A.13. Final Thoughts
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