1. Introduction

• About Django
• Django Components

2. Installing & Configuring Django Components

• Django Pre-Requisites
• Downloading & Installing Django
• Choosing a Database
• Creating a New Project

3. Generating Simple Django Views

• About View Functions
• Using Django's HttpResponse Class
• Understanding HttpRequest Objects
• Using QueryDict Objects

4. Configuring URLconf's

• About URLconf
• Regular Expressions
• Expression Examples
• Simple URLConf Examples
• Using Multiple URLConf's
• Passing URL Arguments

5. Django Templates

• About Templates
• Template Fundamentals
• Creating Template Objects
• Loading Template Files
• Filling in Template Content (Context Objects)
• Template Filters
• Template Tags
• More on For Loops
• Template Inheritance
• Easy Rendering of Templates
• RequestContext Processors
• Global Context Processors

6. HTML Forms with Forms (formerly newforms)

• The Forms Module
• Creating the Form
• Generating Output From the Form
• Customizing Field Parameters
• Processing Form Data
• Custom Form Field Validation
• Generating Custom Field Errors
• Customizing Form Output

7. Database Models with Django

• About Database Models
• Configuring Django for Database Access
• Understanding Django Apps
• About Django Models
• Defining Django Models
• Understanding Model Fields & Options
• Table Naming Conventions
• Creating A Django Model
• Adding the App to Your Project
• Validating the App
• Generating & Reviewing the SQL
• Adding Data to the Model
• Primary Keys and the Model
• Simple Data Retrieval Using a Model
• Understanding QuerySets
• Applying Filters
• Specifying Field Lookups
• Lookup Types
• Slicing QuerySets
• Specifying Ordering in QuerySets
• Common QuerySet Methods
• Deleting Records
• Managing Related Records
• Retrieving Related Records

8. Django ORM

• ORM Configuration:
• Mapper Configuration
• Relationship Configuration
• Inheritance Mapping
• Advanced Collection Configuration
• Configuration Extensions:
• Declarative Extension
• Association Proxy
• Hybrid Attrbutes
• Mutable Scalars
• Ordered List
• ORM Usage: Session Usage and Guidelines
• Query API reference
• Relationship Loading Techniques
• Using Q Objects
• Creating Forms from Models

9. Using the Django Admin Interface

• Enabling the Admin Interface
• Creating an Admin User

10. Access Control with Sessions and Users

• Cookies & Django
• The Django Session Framework
• Sessions in Views
• Session Tuning
• Installing Django User Authentication
• Using Authentication in Views
• Login and Logout
• Building your Own Login/Logout Views
• Authentication Decorators
• Adding & Deactivating Users
• Asynchronous Messaging
• Managing Permissions

11. Generic Views

• Simple Generic Views
• Using Generic Redirects
• Other Generic Views
• Create/Update/Delete Generic views

12. Creating Syndication Feeds

• About Syndication

13. AJAX Integration with Django

• AJAX with Django

14. Data Caching for Performance

• Data Caching
• Setting up Per-View Caching
• Site Caching

15. Preventing Cross Site Request Forgery

• Cross Site Request Forgery

16. Django's Email Functionality

• Configuring Mail Settings
• Sending Email
• Other Email Functions

17. Deploying Django Applications

• Deploying to Apache

18. Using ReportLab for PDF Generation

• About ReportLab Toolkit