LiveWire Developer's Guide - Contents

Introduction

What you should already know

System requirements

What is LiveWire?

Site Manager and LiveWire compiler

LiveWire server extension

Document conventions

Chapter 1 Getting started

Installing LiveWire

Enabling LiveWire

Protecting Application Manager

Using Application Manager

Installing a new application

Controlling access to an application

Modifying installation parameters

Removing an application

Starting, stopping, and restarting an application

Running and debugging an application

Configuring default settings

LiveWire sample applications

Running Hello World

Modifying Hello World

Running Hangman

Modifying Hangman

Debugging Hangman

Chapter 2 Creating and managing Web sites

About Site Manager

Getting the big picture

Getting started

Managing an existing site

Creating a site

Creating a site from a template

Creating a site based on an existing one

Creating an empty site

Working with files and directories

Creating a new directory

Renaming a file or directory

Deleting a file or directory

Configuring editor and browser location

Browsing a file

Creating a new page

Viewing site links

Viewing page links

Modifying links

Checking internal links

Checking external links

Repairing case problems in links

Checking for unused pages

Removing a site from management

"Unmanaging" files and directories

Building LiveWire applications

Deploying a site

Configuring a proxy server

Chapter 3 Developing applications

LiveWire essentials

The basic steps

Creating and editing source files

Embedding JavaScript in HTML

Compiling applications

Compiling with Site Manager

Using the command-line compiler

Installing and restarting applications

Installing new applications

Protecting applications

Starting, restarting, and stopping applications

Running and debugging applications

How LiveWire processes an application page

Debugging applications

Security considerations

Deploying applications

Restricting access to applications

Chapter 4 Using the LiveWire object framework

Using LiveWire objects

The request object

Using form elements

Working with image maps

Encoding request properties in URLs

The client object

The client object lifetime

Techniques for maintaining the client object

The project object

Locking the project object

The server object

Locking the server object

Chapter 5 Using JavaScript

Using client and server scripts

What really happens

What to do where

Using LiveWire functions

Generating dynamic HTML

Flushing the output buffer

Redirecting the client

Displaying debugging information

Using select lists

Maintaining client properties with URL encoding

Encoding values in URLs

Communicating between client and server

Sending values from client to server

Sending values from server to client

Using cookies for client-server communication

Using files on the server

Creating a File object

Opening and closing a file

Working with files

Using the File object: an example

Using external libraries

Guidelines for writing external functions

Identifying library files

Registering external functions

Using external functions in JavaScript

Calling external functions: an example

Chapter 6 Creating database applications

The LiveWire three-tier architecture

Installing database components

An example: the Video application

Creating the Video database

Connecting to the database

Looking at the source files

Working with databases

Connecting to a database

Displaying queries with SQLTable

Disconnecting from a database

Executing passthrough SQL statements

Managing transactions

Using default transactions

Using explicit transaction control

Nested transactions

Transaction isolation levels

Creating a cursor

Cursor methods and properties

Navigating with cursors

Using a cursor: an example

Using updatable cursors

Data-type conversion

Working with binary data

Database status codes

Database error methods

Performing data definition with DBAdmin

Part 2 - LiveWire Reference

Chapter 7 JavaScript Statements

Chapter 8 Objects, methods, properties, and functions

arguments array

arguments property

beginTransaction

close (cursor object)

close (document object)

close (File object)

close (window object)

commitTransaction

defaultSelected

elements array

elements property

getOptionValueCount

getTimezoneOffset

location object

location property

majorErrorMessage

minorErrorMessage

open (document object)

open (window object)

protocol (request object)

protocol (server object)

registerCFunction

rollbackTransaction

window property

Glossary

Index