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1. Web Modules

• 1.1 web -- Web modules
• 1.2 web.auth -- Easy to use authorisation and user management system
  • 1.2.1 Password Protecting Your Code
    • 1.2.1.1 Function Reference
  • 1.2.2 Administering The Auth Environment
    • 1.2.2.1 Adding Applications
    • 1.2.2.2 Adding Users
    • 1.2.2.3 Setting Access Levels
    • 1.2.2.4 Function Reference
  • 1.2.3 Examples
    • 1.2.3.1 Creating the Auth Environment
    • 1.2.3.2 Password Protecting Code
    • 1.2.3.3 Using Alternative Drivers
• 1.3 datetime -- Compatibility code providing date and time classes for Python 2.2 users
  • 1.3.1 Module-Level Functionality
  • 1.3.2 Compatibility with Python 2.3 and above
• 1.4 web.database -- SQL database layer
  • 1.4.1 Introduction
    • 1.4.1.1 Overview of Approach
    • 1.4.1.2 Supported Databases
  • 1.4.2 Connecting to a Database
  • 1.4.3 Cursor Options
  • 1.4.4 Using SQL Commands
    • 1.4.4.1 Understanding Field Types
    • 1.4.4.2 Selecting Data
    • 1.4.4.3 Inserting Data
    • 1.4.4.4 Updating Data
    • 1.4.4.5 Deleting Data
    • 1.4.4.6 Creating Tables
    • 1.4.4.7 Dropping Tables
    • 1.4.4.8 Altering Tables
    • 1.4.4.9 Functions
  • 1.4.5 Cursor Methods
  • 1.4.6 Debugging
  • 1.4.7 Utility Methods
  • 1.4.8 Developer Notes
    • 1.4.8.1 The Types Cache
    • 1.4.8.2 Field Information
  • 1.4.9 Database Specific Notes
    • 1.4.9.1 MySQL
    • 1.4.9.2 SQLite
    • 1.4.9.3 ODBC
    • 1.4.9.4 Complicaitons with Gadfly
  • 1.4.10 Test Code
  • 1.4.11 Future
• 1.5 web.database.object -- An object relation mapper built on the web.database and web.form modules
  • 1.5.1 Introduction
    • 1.5.1.1 Requirements
    • 1.5.1.2 Compared To Other Database Wrappers
  • 1.5.2 Introductory Example
    • 1.5.2.1 Full Code Listing
    • 1.5.2.2 Using Alternative Keys
    • 1.5.2.3 Available Columns
  • 1.5.3 One-To-Many Mappings
    • 1.5.3.1 Full Code Listing
  • 1.5.4 Many-To-Many Mappings
    • 1.5.4.1 Full Code Listing
  • 1.5.5 Building Queries
    • 1.5.5.1 How It Works
    • 1.5.5.2 Supported Operators
    • 1.5.5.3 Supported Functions
    • 1.5.5.4 Full Code Listing
  • 1.5.6 Creating Forms/Tables
    • 1.5.6.1 Full Code Listing
  • 1.5.7 Creating Tables by Defining Classes
  • 1.5.8 Other Useful Features
  • 1.5.9 Class Reference
    • 1.5.9.1 The Database Object
    • 1.5.9.2 The Table Object
    • 1.5.9.3 The Row Object
  • 1.5.10 Future
• 1.6 web.error -- Enhanced error handling based on the cgitb module
  • 1.6.1 Basic Usage
  • 1.6.2 Using the built in handlers
  • 1.6.3 Creating Custom Handlers
  • 1.6.4 Example
• 1.7 web.form -- Construction of persistant forms/wizards for HTML interfaces
  • 1.7.1 Introduction
  • 1.7.2 Form Objects
  • 1.7.3 Creating Custom Forms
  • 1.7.4 Fields
    • 1.7.4.1 web.form.field.basic -- Various fields for use with web.form
    • 1.7.4.2 web.form.field.typed -- Typed fields for use with web.form and web.database.object
    • 1.7.4.3 web.form.field.extra -- Extra fields for use with web.form
  • 1.7.5 Basic Fields Example
  • 1.7.6 Typed Fields Example
• 1.8 web.image -- Create and manipulate graphics including JPG, PNG, PDF, PS using PIL
  • 1.8.1 web.image.graph -- Create graphs
• 1.9 web.mail -- Simple function to send email using email
  • 1.9.1 Example
• 1.10 web.session -- Peristant storage of session and automatic cookie handling
  • 1.10.1 Introduction
  • 1.10.2 Example
  • 1.10.3 Session Object Reference
  • 1.10.4 Multiple Applications
  • 1.10.5 Writing a Module Based On Session
  • 1.10.6 Session Destruction
  • 1.10.7 Setting up a Session Environment
  • 1.10.8 Future
• 1.11 web.template -- For the easy display of data as HTML/XML
  • 1.11.1 Cheetah Template
  • 1.11.2 XYAPTU Templating
  • 1.11.3 Dreamweaver MX
• 1.12 web.util -- Useful utility functions that don't fit elsewhere
• 1.13 web.xml -- XSLT Transform

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Documentation released on November 18, 2004 .