Hope this stimulates much interest in the cookbook and that I'm not stepping on any copyright issues. This is the pre-production TOC.
web2py Cookbook Table of Contents (draft copy) Chapter 1: Deploying web2py - Installing web2py on Windows (from source code) - Installing web2py on Ubuntu - Setting up a production deployment on Ubuntu - Running web2py with Apache, mod_proxy, and mod_rewrite - Running web2py with Lighttpd - Running web2py with Cherokee - Running web2py with Nginx and uWSGI - Running web2py on shared hosts using CGI - Running web2py on shared hosts with mod_proxy - Running web2py from a user-defined folder - Installing web2py as a service in Ubuntu - Running web2py with IIS as proxy - Running web2py with ISAPI Chapter 2: Building Your First Application - Improving the scaffolding application - Building a simple contacts application - Building a Reddit clone - Building a Facebook clone - Using crud.archive - Converting an existing static site into a web2py application - Creating semi-static pages (flatpages) - Adding your custom logo - Creating menus and submenus - Customizing menus with icons - Creating a navigation bar - Using cookies to set the language - Designing modular applications - Speeding up downloads Chapter 3: Database Abstraction Layer - Creating a new model - Creating a model from a csv file - Batch upload of your data - Moving your data from one database to another - Creating a model from existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases - Efficiently searching by tag - Accessing your database from multiple applications - Hierarchical category tree - Creating records on demand - OR, LIKE, BELONGS, and more on Google App Engine - Replacing slow virtual fields with DB views Chapter 4: Advanced Forms - Adding a cancel button to forms - Adding confirmation on form submit - Searching data dynamically - Embedding multiple forms in one page - Detecting and blocking concurrent updates - Creating a form wizard - De-normalizing data temporarily - Removing form labels - Using fileuploader.js - Uploading files using a LOADed component - Making image thumbnails from uploaded images - Monitoring upload progress - Auto tooltip in forms - Color picker widget - Shortening text fields - Creating multi-table forms - Creating a multi-table form with references - Creating a multi-table update form - Star rating widget Chapter 5: Adding Ajax Effects - Using jquery.multiselect.js - Creating a select_or_add widget - Using an autocompletion plugin - Creating a drop-down date selector - Improving the built-in ajax function - Using a slider to represent a number - Using jqGrid and web2py - Improving data tables with WebGrid - Ajaxing your search functions - Creating sparklines Chapter 6: Using Third-party Libraries - Customizing logging - Aggregating feeds - Displaying Tweets - Plotting with matplotlib - Extending PluginWiki with an RSS widget Chapter 7: Web Services - Consuming a web2py JSON service with jQuery - Consuming a JSON-RPC service - JSON-RPC from JavaScript - Making amf3 RPC calls from Flex using pyamf - PayPal integration in web2py - PayPal web payments standard - Getting Flickr photos - Sending e-mails with Boto through Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Making GIS maps using mapscript - Google groups and Google code feeds reader - Creating SOAP web services Chapter 8: Authentication and Authorization - Customizing Auth - Using CAPTCHA un login failure - Using pyGravatar to get avatars for user profile pages - Multi-user and teacher modes - Authenticating with Facebook using OAuth 2.0 Chapter 9: Routing Routing Routing Routing Recipes ecipesecipes In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes: - Making cleaner URLs with routes.py - Creating a simple router - Adding a URL prefix - Associating applications with domains - Omitting the application name - Removing application name and controllers from URLs - Replacing underscores with hyphens in URLs - Mapping favicons.ico and robots.txt - Using URL to specify the language Chapter 10: Reporting Recipes - Creating PDF reports - Creating PDF listings - Creating PDF labels, badges, and invoices Chapter 11: Other Tips and Tricks - Using PDB and the embedded web2py debugger - Debugging with Eclipse and PyDev - Updating web2py using a shell script - Creating a simple page statistics plugin - Rounding corners without images or JavaScript - Setting a cache.disk quota - Checking if web2py is running using cron - Building a Mercurial plugin - Building a pingback plugin - Changing views for mobile browsers - Background processing with a database queue - How to effectively use template blocks - Making standalone applications with web2py and wxPython
