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Phoenix Web Development

You're reading from   Phoenix Web Development Create rich web applications using functional programming techniques with Phoenix and Elixir

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284197
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A Brief Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix 2. Building Controllers, Views, and Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing and Retrieving Vote Data with Ecto Pages 4. Introducing User Accounts and Sessions 5. Validations, Errors, and Tying Loose Ends 6. Live Voting with Phoenix 7. Improving Our Application and Adding Features 8. Adding Chat to Your Phoenix Application 9. Using Presence and ETS in Phoenix 10. Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model 11. Implementing OAuth in Our Application 12. Building an API and Deploying 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a new poll

We have a nice new (well, okay, it's not that nice, but it is functional at least) interface for displaying our polls, but if we always have to go into an IEx terminal to create new polls it probably won't pick up in usage very quickly! Instead, we need to provide the users of the site with a simple web interface that they can use to create their own polls on demand! We'll do something very simple for our interface:

We'll also need to create two new actions in our controller to dictate the flow of new data into our database: new and create. The job of the new action is to set up the starting point of data that our form is going to work with, and create will handle actually creating the data and send some result of posting the form back to the end user! We should end up with a flow that looks like this:

We'll need to understand a little...

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