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Cookbook style documentation for web.py 0.3. Note that some of these features aren't available in previous versions. Currently version 0.3 is the development branch.

Formatting

1. In terms of formatting, please try to use a cookbook-like format...that is:

   Problem: You want to access data from database.

   Solution: Use this code...

2. Note that the urls don't need "web" in them -- just "/cookbook/select" , not "/cookbook/web.select".
   

3. Finally, this documentation is for version 0.3, so please only add code that you know works with the new version.

Basics:

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

Advanced

• 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 Postgresql database
• Sessions with sub-apps

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

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

Database:

• 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
• mod_wsgi deployment through Nginx
• Fastcgi deployment through Nginx

Subdomains:

• Subdomains and how to access the username (requested)