The introduction example
You can get a first idea about the usage of ucw in the samples collection. However there isn't a somewhat realistic example in my eyes. So here we go.The example I want to use to introduce you to ucw is the following
- a user comes to our site and wants to download some software
- we are curious about him and want to learn his name and also how often he has come to download stuff from our pages
- after he has let us know his name we redirect him to the download locations
- it should not be possible for him/her to reach the pages without giving us some name (even if it's garbage)
It seems nowaday most web-pages are backed up by some Database. One extracts Data from there, displays them, allows the user to edit them (or delete) them and then you store them back. So I think a real example should contain this access also. To be able to follow this example yourself you therefor have to install quite a bunch of things - cl-sql - ucw and all dependencies - a database (I will use PostgreSQL - an ucw-supported Webserver (I will use Apache, you can use the web server which comes along with ucw also.
I will use SBCL as my common lisp, however I have tried the package also with LispWorks, but of course I can not guarantee it will work with your Common lisp implementation choice.
If you do not get all this things installed, feel free to contact me and I try to help.
Next: ucwTutorialDataModel ; Previous: ucw Tutorial