Chapter 2. Handling Forms and Complex URL Mapping

Our application, as beautiful as it looks, would benefit from more informations about our users.

We could as them to provide the topics they are interested in.

In this chapter, we will build a profile page. It will feature server- and client-side validation and file upload for a profile picture. We will save that information in the user session and also ensure that our audience is as large as possible by translating the application into several languages. Finally, we will display a summary of Twitter activity matching users' tastes.

Sounds good? Let's get started, we have some work to do.

The profile page – a form

Forms are the cornerstones of every web application. They have been the main way to get ...

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