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Web.py Cookbook

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Basics

• Hello World
• Serving Static Files
• Understanding URL handling
• Seeother and Redirect
• using subapplications
• Serving XML
• Reading raw data from post

Advanced

• Contextual and Environment variables - web.ctx
• Application processors, loadhooks and unloadhooks
• How to use web.background
• Custom NotFound message
• How to Stream Large Files
• Control over logging for default HTTPServer
• SSL support in built-in cherrypy server
• Run-time language switch

Sessions and user state

• Working with Session
• Using session with reloader
• Using session in template
• Working with Cookies
• User authentication
• User authentication with http basic auth (RFC2617)
• User authentication with Postgresql database
• Sessions with sub-apps
• Unpack session stored in postgresql

Utils

• Sending Mail
• Sending Mail Using Gmail
• Webservice using soaplib + WSDL

Templates

• Templetor: The web.py templating system
• Using Site Layout Templates
• Alternating Style
• Import functions into templates
• i18n support in template file
• Use Mako template engine in webpy
• Use Cheetah template engine in webpy
• Use Jinja2 template engine in webpy
• How to use templates on Google App Engine
• Concatenate two rendered templates

Testing

• Testing with Paste and Nose
• RESTful doctesting using an application's request method

User input

• File Upload
• Store an uploaded file
• How to put a limit of size of uploaded files
• Accessing user input through web.input
• How to use forms
• Render individual form fields
• How to protect forms from CSRF attacks

Databases

• Multiple databases
• Select: Retrieving entries from a database
• Update: Updating entries in a database
• Delete: Remove entries in a database
• Insert: Adding entries to a database
• Query: Advanced database queries
• How to use database transactions
• Using sqlalchemy
• Integrating SQLite UDF (user-defined-functions) with webpy database layer
• Using a dictionary as where clause

Deployment

• Fastcgi deployment through lighttpd
• Fastcgi deployment through Apache
• CGI deployment through Apache
• mod_python deployment through Apache (requested)
• mod_wsgi deployment through Apache on Red Hat
• mod_wsgi deployment through Apache on Ubuntu
• mod_wsgi deployment through Nginx
• Fastcgi deployment through Nginx
• PyISAPIe deployment through IIS7/IIS6
• Deploying as a google app engine application

Subdomains

• Subdomains and how to access the username (requested)