Documentation (version 0.91)

These docs are frozen for Django version 0.91. For current documentation, go here.

The essentials

Read the following before anything else.

• Django overview
• Installation guide
• Tutorial: Writing your first Django app
  • Part 1: Initialization, creating models, the database API
  • Part 2: Exploring the automatically-generated admin site
  • Part 3: Creating the public interface views
  • Part 4: Simple form processing and generic views
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Reference

• The django-admin.py and manage.py utilities
• Models: Creating models | Examples | The database API
• Templates: Guide for HTML authors | Guide for Python programmers
• Forms and manipulators
• Sessions
• Caching
• Internationalization
• Middleware
• Settings files
• URL configuration
• Request and response objects
• Generic views
• Authentication
• Add-on applications (contrib)
  • Syndication feeds (RSS and Atom)
  • Flatpages
  • Redirects

Solving specific problems

• Using Django with mod_python
• Authenticating against Django's user database from Apache
• Serving static/media files
• Sending e-mail
• Integrating with (introspecting) a legacy database
• Outputting PDFs dynamically
• Outputting CSV dynamically

Et cetera

• Design philosophies
• How to contribute to Django
• Django admin CSS guide
• Backwards-incompatible changes