The Web Modules are built on a number of popular design patterns. It addresses the following problems typically encountered in the development of complex sites:
- Use Anywhere
- The Web Modules are designed to work with any Python system. They can be used with Zope and Webware but also can be used on a shared hosting account without needing administrator priveldges. This makes the modules especially useful as they can be used to write CGI scripts on Apache servers.
- Separating design from logic
- The Web Modules include a number of templating systems including Cheetah, XYAPTU and others, which allow for a clean divide between the HTML page design and the program data.
- Extreme Programming
- The Web Modules are built on the methadology of Extreme Programming. By writing simple clean modules we avoid unncecesary features and offer a very flexible toolkit for the development of advanced applications.
- Form and Field Mangement
- The Web Modules provide a form module to allow the simple display of data through an HTML form. Complex fields can be created with typed return values.
- Managing users and their access permissions
- The Web Modules include an auth module which can use md5 encryption to store users' usernames and passwords in a database. It also offers a very simple interface for user management and permision checking as well as a persistance mechanism.
- Database independence
- The web modules come with a database abstraction layer supporting ODBC, MySQL and SQLite. The database layer can be used to program database independant SQL
- Object Relation Mapper
- The Modules come with an advanced ORM called object which makes database programming simple with no knowledge of SQL. It supports a query builder, one-to-many and many-to-many mappings and integrates with the form module to provide an HTML interface to the data structures.
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