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## Creating Web Pages

by Joel Aufrecht

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### Install some API

As a workaround for missing content-repository functionality, copy a provided file into the directory for tcl files:

        cp /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tutorial/note-procs.tcl /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage/tcl/

To make this file take effect, go to the APM and choose "Reload changed" for "MyFirstPackage".

### Page Map

Our package will have two visible pages. The first shows a list of all objects; the second shows a single object in view or edit mode, and can also be used to add an object. The index page will display the list, but since we might reuse the list later, we'll put it in a seperate file and include it on the index page.

Figure 8.4. Page Map

### Build the "Index" page

Each user-visible page in your package has, typically, three parts. The `tcl` file holds the procedural logic for the page, including TCL and database-independent SQL code, and does things like check permissions, invoke the database queries, and modify variables, and the `adp` page holds html. The `-postgres.xql` and `-oracle.xql` files contains database-specific SQL. The default page in any directory is `index`, so we'll build that first, starting with the tcl file:

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackages/www
    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ emacs index.tcl

Paste this into the file.

    ad_page_contract {
        This is the main page for the package.  It displays all of the Notes and provides links to edit them and to create new Notes.

        @author Your Name (you@example.com)
        @cvs-id $Id: tutorial-pages.html,v 1.38.2.3 2009/09/11 23:41:28 donb Exp $
    }

    set page_title [ad_conn instance_name]
    set context [list]

Now `index.adp`:

    <master>
      <property name="title">@page_title;noquote@</property>
      <property name="context">@context;noquote@</property>
    <include src="/packages/myfirstpackage/lib/note-list">

The index page includes the list page, which we put in /lib instead of /www to designate that it's available for reuse by other packages.

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ mkdir /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage/lib
    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage/lib
    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME lib]$ emacs note-list.tcl

    template::list::create \
        -name notes \
        -multirow notes \
        -actions { "Add a Note" note-edit} \
        -elements {
    	edit {
    	    link_url_col edit_url
    	    display_template {
    		<img src="/resources/acs-subsite/Edit16.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0">
    	    }
    	    sub_class narrow
    	}
    	title {
    	    label "Title"
    	}
    	delete {
    	    link_url_col delete_url
    	    display_template {
    		<img src="/resources/acs-subsite/Delete16.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0">
    	    }
    	    sub_class narrow
    	}
        }

    db_multirow \
        -extend {
    	edit_url
    	delete_url
        } notes notes_select {
    	select ci.item_id,
    	       n.title
            from   cr_items ci,
                   mfp_notesx n
            where  n.revision_id = ci.live_revision
        } {
    	set edit_url [export_vars -base "note-edit" {item_id}]
    	set delete_url [export_vars -base "note-delete" {item_id}]
        }

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME lib]$ emacs note-list.adp

    <listtemplate name="notes"></listtemplate>

You can test your work by viewing the page.

Create the add/edit page. If note_id is passed in, it display that note, and can change to edit mode if appropriate. Otherwise, it presents a form for adding notes.

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME lib]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage/www
    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ emacs note-edit.tcl

    ad_page_contract {
        This is the view-edit page for notes.

        @author Your Name (you@example.com)
        @cvs-id $Id: tutorial-pages.html,v 1.38.2.3 2009/09/11 23:41:28 donb Exp $

        @param item_id If present, assume we are editing that note.  Otherwise, we are creating a new note.
    } {
        item_id:integer,optional
    }

    ad_form -name note -form {
        {item_id:key}
        {title:text {label Title}}
    } -new_request {
        auth::require_login
        permission::require_permission -object_id [ad_conn package_id] -privilege create
        set page_title "Add a Note"
        set context [list $page_title]
    } -edit_request {
        auth::require_login
        permission::require_write_permission -object_id $item_id
        mfp::note::get \
    	-item_id $item_id \
    	-array note_array

        set title $note_array(title)

        set page_title "Edit a Note"
        set context [list $page_title]
    } -new_data {
        mfp::note::add \
    	-title $title
    } -edit_data {
        mfp::note::edit \
    	-item_id $item_id \
    	-title $title
    } -after_submit {
        ad_returnredirect "."
        ad_script_abort
    }

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ emacs note-edit.adp

    <master>
      <property name="title">@page_title;noquote@</property>
      <property name="context">@context;noquote@</property>
      <property name="focus">note.title</property>

    <formtemplate id="note"></formtemplate>

And the delete page. Since it has no UI, there is only a tcl page, and no adp page.

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME www]$ emacs note-delete.tcl

    ad_page_contract {
        This deletes a note

        @author Your Name (you@example.com)
        @cvs-id $Id: tutorial-pages.html,v 1.38.2.3 2009/09/11 23:41:28 donb Exp $

        @param item_id The item_id of the note to delete
    } {
        item_id:integer
    }

    permission::require_write_permission -object_id $item_id
    set title [item::get_title $item_id]
    mfp::note::delete -item_id $item_id

    ad_returnredirect "."
    # stop running this code, since we're redirecting
    abort

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