WEB2PY ^{2nd Ed.}

web2py is a free and open source full-stack enterprise for agile development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. web2py is written and programmable in Python.

1. Introduction
   1. Principles
   2. Web Frameworks
   3. Model-View-Controller
   4. Why web2py
   5. Security
   6. In the box
   7. License
   8. License Commercial Exception
   9. Acknowledgments
   10. About this Book
   11. Elements of Style
2. The Python Language
   1. About Python
   2. Starting up
   3. help, dir
   4. Types
   5. About Indentation
   6. for…in
   7. while
   8. def…return
   9. if…elif…else
   10. try…except…else…finally
   11. class
   12. Special Attributes, Methods and Operators
   13. File Input/Output
   14. lambda
   15. exec, eval
   16. import
3. Overview
   1. Startup
   2. Say Hello
   3. Let's Count
   4. Say My Name
   5. Form self-submission
   6. An Image Blog
   7. Adding CRUD
   8. Adding Authentication
   9. A Wiki
   10. More on admin
       • [site]
       • [about]
       • [EDIT]
       • [errors]
       • [mercurial]
   11. More on appadmin
4. The Core
   1. Command Line Options
   2. URL Mapping
   3. Libraries
   4. Applications
   5. API
   6. request
   7. response
   8. session
   9. cache
   10. URL
   11. HTTP and redirect
   12. T and Internationalization
   13. Cookies
   14. init Application
   15. URL Rewrite
   16. Routes on Error
   17. Cron
   18. Import Other Modules
   19. Execution Environment
   20. Cooperation
5. The Views
   1. Basic Syntax
      • for…in
      • while
      • if…elif…else
      • try…except…else…finally
      • def…return
   2. HTML Helpers
      • XML
      • Built-in Helpers
      • Custom Helpers
   3. BEAUTIFY
   4. Page Layout
   5. Using the Template System to Generate Emails
   6. Layout Builder
6. The Database Abstraction Layer
   1. Dependencies
   2. Connection Strings
      • Connection Pooling
   3. DAL, Table, Field
   4. Migrations
      • insert
      • commit and rollback
      • executesql
      • _lastsql
      • drop
      • Indexes
      • Legacy Databases
      • Distributed Transaction
   5. Query, Set, Rows
      • select
      • Serializing Rows in Views
      • orderby, groupby, limitby, distinct
      • Logical Operators
      • count, delete, update
      • Expressions
      • update, record
   6. One to Many Relations
      • Inner Joins
      • Left Outer Join
      • Grouping and Counting
   7. How to see SQL
   8. Exporting and Importing Data
      • CSV (one table at a time)
      • CSV (all tables at once)
      • CSV and remote Database Synchronization
      • HTML/XML (one table at a time)
   9. Many to Many
   10. Other Operators
       • like, upper, lower
       • year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds
       • belongs
   11. Caching Selects
   12. Shortcuts
   13. Self-Reference and Aliases
   14. Table Inheritance
7. Forms and Validators
   1. FORM
      • Hidden fields
      • keepvalues
      • onvalidation
      • Forms and redirection
      • Multiple forms per page
      • No self-submission
   2. SQLFORM
      • Insert/Update/Delete SQLFORM
      • SQLFORM in HTML
      • SQLFORM and uploads
      • Storing the original filename
      • Removing the action file
      • Links to referencing records
      • Prepopulating the form
      • SQLFORM without database IO
   3. SQLFORM.factory
   4. Validators
      • Basic Validators
      • Database Validators
      • Custom Validators
      • Validators with Dependencies
   5. Widgets
   6. CRUD
      • Attributes
      • Messages
      • Methods
   7. Custom form
      • CSS Conventions
      • Switch off errors
8. Access Control
   1. Authentication
      • Email verification
      • Restrictions on registration
      • CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA
      • Customizing Auth
      • Renaming Auth tables
      • Alternative Login Methods
   2. Authorization
      • Decorators
      • Combining requirements
      • Authorization and CRUD
      • Authroization and Downloads
      • Access control and Basic authentication
      • Settings and Messages
   3. Central Authentication Service
9. Services
   1. Rendering a dictionary
      • HTML, XML, and JSON
      • How it works
      • Rendering Rows
      • Custom Forms
      • RSS
      • CSV
   2. Remote Procedure Calls
      • XMLRPC
      • JSONRPC
      • AMFRPC
   3. Low Level API and Other Recipes
      • simplejson
      • PyRTF
      • ReportLab and PDF
   4. Services and Authentication
10. Ajax Recipes
    1. web2py.ajax.html
    2. jQuery Effects
       • Conditional Fields in Forms
       • Confirmation on Delete
    3. The ajax Function
       • Eval target
       • Auto-completion
       • Form Submission
       • Voting and Rating
11. Deployment Recipes
    1. Setup Apache on Linux
       • Setup mod_wsgi on Linux
    2. mod_wsgi and SSL
    3. Setup mod_proxy on Linux
    4. Start as Linux Daemon
    5. Setup Apache and mod_wsgi on Windows
    6. Start as Windows Service
    7. Setup Lighttpd
    8. Apache2 and mod_python in a shared hosting environment
    9. Setup Cherokee with FastCGI
    10. Setup PostgreSQL
    11. Security Issues
    12. Scalability Issues
        • Sessions in Database
        • Pound, a High Availability Load Balancer
        • Cleanup Sessions
        • Upload Files in Database
        • Collecting Tickets
        • Memcache
        • Sessions in Memcache
        • Removing Applications
    13. Google App Engine
12. Other Recipes
    1. Upgrading WEB2PY
    2. fetching a URL
    3. Geocoding
    4. Pagination
    5. Streaming Virtual Files
    6. httpserver.log and the log file format
    7. Send an SMS
    8. Twitter API
    9. Jython

Overhyped and overpriced. To this, add that some important info is missing from the book, and I can't get myself to recommend this.

The framework itself is fairly OK, but one of the self-hype the author uses is that this book exists as documentation, which make it even worse.