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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun
Book Image

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Lift Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Defining a relation between form fields


Another neat feature that Lift provides is Cells, which like cells in a spreadsheet can be wired together, so when the value of one cell changes, it automatically updates the value of another one.

In this recipe, I'll mix Ajax forms with Cells to teach you how to create a dynamic shopping cart. Thus, when the user updates the quantity of a given item he or she wants to purchase, the total amount per item and the total shopping cart amount will be updated.

Getting ready

You can use the code from the examples we've used in the previous recipes, or you can start a new project.

Modify the index.html file by removing everything inside the div tag, with main as the value of the id field, and add the following code into it:

      <div data-lift=" ShoppingCart.show">
          <table>
              <thead>
              <tr>
                  <th>Item</th>
                  <th>Quantity</th>
                  &lt...