To close the database / web app session, let's take a look at a more complex example: A full stack Enterprise-Resource-Planning app (in a quite simplified form of course). This app has several different pages, a navigation menu, calculations, PDF doc...
In the last post we discussed the theory of using the adm.l library to add a simple user login field. Today we will show how to do that in our app. Creating the Login Form The global variable *Login stores whether a user is logged into the session. ...
Typically, a web application also requires some kind of user administration: Who has access to the data, who can modify or delete? In order to not re-invent the wheel every time, we can use the pre-installed adm.l library. You can find it in the lib/...
In the last post, we have seen that we can use the "standard" PicoLisp <table> function to display output from the database. The advantage is that it's a standardized and powerful with very concise code. But we don't want to be restricted to tables,...
Welcome back to the "Web Application Programming" series. Let's use our new knowledge from the "The PicoLisp Database" and "Learning Pilog" series to add a database to the To-Do app example of the previous posts. We will start with the "Desktop" vers...
In the last post we generated a view on all "contemporaries" of a specified person. The data were fetched from the database with help of a Pilog query. Now we will see how we can write this output to a .txt or .PDF file. We continue with our family-...
