This document is for Django's development version, which can be significantly different from previous releases. Get old docs here: 1.1, 1.0
Django documentation contents¶
- Using Django
- How to install Django
- Models and databases
- Handling HTTP requests
- Working with forms
- Creating forms from models
- The Django template language
- Generic views
- Managing files
- Testing Django applications
- User authentication in Django
- Django’s cache framework
- Conditional View Processing
- Sending e-mail
- Internationalization and localization
- Pagination
- Serializing Django objects
- Django settings
- Signals
- “How-to” guides
- Authenticating against Django’s user database from Apache
- Authentication using REMOTE_USER
- Writing custom django-admin commands
- Writing custom model fields
- Custom template tags and filters
- Writing a custom storage system
- Deploying Django
- Error reporting via e-mail
- Providing initial data for models
- Using internationalization in your own projects
- Running Django on Jython
- Integrating Django with a legacy database
- Outputting CSV with Django
- Outputting PDFs with Django
- How to serve static files
Indices, glossary and tables¶
Deprecated/obsolete documentation¶
The following documentation covers features that have been deprecated or that have been replaced in newer versions of Django.
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