The Quixote Cookbook provides a set of small recipes and tips for using Quixote.

General web interactions

• SettingCookies -- Set cookies

• ReadingCookies -- Read cookies

• DeletingCookies -- Delete cookies

• BrowserRedirection -- Redirecting the client to different URLs

• ReadingEnvVars -- Reading environment variables

• ReadingFormVars -- Reading form variables

• ReadingConfigVars -- Reading configuration variables

• XmlRpcInterface -- Providing an XML-RPC interface

• SoapInterface -- Providing a SOAP interface

• BrowserDetection -- Examining the characteristics of the HTTP client

• StreamingOutput -- Sending large amounts of output to the browser

• CompressingOutput -- Saving bandwidth by providing compressed HTTP output

• CheckingForCookieSupport -- Verifying that the client supports cookies

• Profiling HTTP requests

• IllegalPythonNames -- Getting around the Python-URI legal names mismatch

• XmlHttpUsingJsolait -- A demo of an Ajax (XMLHttp) based interface

• AjaxWithMochikit -- Retrieving and displaying database data asynchronously with AJAX

• ExtDirectory -- nicer URLs with Quixote

• ReturningDirectoryInstances -- How to write methods that return Directory instances

• ChangeOutputCharset -- How to config output charset

Sessions

• UsingSessions -- Setting a unique ID for users

• StoringSessionsInDatabase -- Using a database to store sessions

• Creating session-specific URLs

Authentication

• HttpBasicAuthentication - Using HTTP basic authentication

Templating

• PTL

  • PTL/EscapingText -- escaping special characters in text making links

  • UsingPTLForTemplating -- PTL without Quixote.

  • SimpleTemplate -- solution recipe for 'dumb' templating

• TemplatingWithZpt -- using Zope Page Templates under Quixote

• TemplatingWithCheetah

• QuixoteAndSimpleTal -- helper code for using TAL templates.

• Nevow

Error handling

• ExceptionEmail -- Having errors sent to you

• HidingExceptions -- Providing an error page for the user

• Logging debugging output

Forms

• Validating user input
• Multiple options
• Indicating errors

• CustomFormRendering -- Customizing the appearance of a form

• Recording hidden fields
• Multi-page forms

• Varying forms with OptionSelect

• UploadingFiles -- Processing uploaded files

Form2 Framework

• Form2 GettingStarted -- a simple example

Design Patterns

• UrlAsInterface -- Design your application's URLs carefully.

• SeparateDomainObjectsAndInterface -- Don't mix domain logic with HTML rendering and other webbish details.

• LongRunningProcesses -- Starting lengthy tasks from a Quixote handler

Graphics

• StaticDirectory, StaticFile: Returning files (images, PDF, CSS) from the filesystem

• Creating images with PIL

• Creating PDF with ReportLab

• Creating graphs with Chaco

• Creating PostScript documents

Internationalization

• Listing available locales
• Choosing a locale
• Localizing messages
• Localizing dates/times
• Localizing currency

Server-related tasks

• RejectUnwantedRequests -- How to ignore unwanted/illegal requests when running as a Medusa server.

• Tips for running QuixoteAndMedusaAsWin32Service. (Needs the service info added. I'm not familiar with that part.)

• GettingFastCgiToWork : Specifically with the demo.

• ScgiConfiguration : Common pitfalls with SCGI (especially mod_scgi on Apache)

• LighttpdScgi: How to use Quixote with Lighttpd

• IIS: How to use Quixote with IIS

• qxserver: A simple server using quixote.server

Unclassified

• StandaloneApp -- Writing a standalone application

• Sending an e-mail message
• Sending MIME e-mail

• ReusingConnections -- Reusing database connections, proxies, and other resources.

• DulcineaCookbook -- tips for using site management tools and ready-made classes in Dulcinea

• Moellus -- a rich and soft layer on Durus. Simplifies usage of the Durus object db, as well as combines advantages inherent to an object db with some that are more typical of relational db, such as indices and querying capabilities.

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