Welcome to py4web’s documentation!

Contents:

• What is py4web?
• Installation and Startup
  • Supported platforms and prerequisites
  • Setup procedures
  • Upgrading
  • First run
  • Command line options
  • Deployment on the cloud
• Creating your first app
  • From scratch
  • Static web pages
  • Dynamic Web Pages
  • From _scaffold
  • App Watchdog
• Dashboard
• Fixtures
  • Important about Fixtures
  • Templates
  • Sessions
  • Translator
  • The Flash fixture
  • The DAL fixture
  • Caveats about Fixtures
  • Custom fixtures
  • Auth and Auth.user
  • Caching and Memoize
  • Convenience Decorators
• The database abstraction layer (DAL)
  • Dependencies
  • The DAL: A quick tour
  • Using the DAL “stand-alone”
  • DAL constructor
  • Table constructor
  • Field constructor
  • Migrations
  • insert
  • commit and rollback
  • Raw SQL
  • drop
  • Indexes
  • Legacy databases and keyed tables
  • Distributed transaction
  • More on uploads
  • Query, Set, Rows
  • select
  • Other methods
  • Computed fields
  • Virtual fields
  • One to many relation
  • Many to many
  • Tagging records
  • list:<type> and contains
  • Other operators
  • Generating raw sql
  • Exporting and importing data
  • Caching selects
  • Self-Reference and aliases
  • Advanced features
  • Gotchas
• The RESTAPI
  • RestAPI GET
• YATL Template Language
  • Basic syntax
• YATL helpers
  • XML
  • Built-in helpers
  • Custom helpers
  • BEAUTIFY
  • Server-side DOM and parsing
  • Page layout
  • Functions in views
  • Blocks in views
• Internationalization
  • Pluralize
  • Update the translation files
• Forms
  • Example
  • Form validation
• Authentication and Access control
  • Auth UI
  • Using Auth
  • Auth Plugins
  • Tags and Permissions
• Grid
  • Key Features
  • Basic Example
  • Signature
  • Searching / Filtering
  • CRUD
  • Templates
  • Customizing Style
  • Custom Action Buttons
  • Sample Action Button Class
  • Reference Fields

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page