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Call me old fashioned but I prefer my code naked, plain php and postgres, nothing else, not even JS. So for me, echo 'Hello world' is good enough.
Users overwhelmingly prefer some amount of client-side interaction, so how do you do that without JavaScript?
Links, text boxes, selects, radios, checkboxes, buttons, forms, and content.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer my code naked, plain php and postgres, nothing else, not even JS. So for me, echo 'Hello world' is good enough.
Users overwhelmingly prefer some amount of client-side interaction, so how do you do that without JavaScript?
Nailed it. I love PHP and it's still my main language, but the reason so many projects never get completed is because of this. Really I should just accept that for an MVP, Laravel and a static front end with some old school jQuery where required is fine.
Sorry but if you love PHP and use as your main language, why you don't complete any sideproject ? I don't understand your statement.
> But each dispute has an argument in favor of PHP — it’s easy for beginners. To my mind, this argument isn’t valid anymore, which is exactly what I was trying to say in this article. It's still is easier AND cheaper to deploy a Hello World in PHP than a Hello World in any other language. You can get a cheap Apache/PHP hosting for $2/month, use SFTP a get a working app in minutes. The default PHP distribution comes w…
Of course it's complex when you introduce complexity. So is anything by definition. If you don't want to do complex things, you're fine. But if you want to have a database, have a framework abstract away the truly dangerous and boring shit, use a modern, type-safe version of Javascript, write CSS in something approaching a maintainable fashion, and deliver a responsive, reactive site, you'll have to do something like this, regardless of language.
Also, the author neglected to set up database migrations, to say nothing of a Dockerfile.
Sometimes I miss the old good days with PHP mixed in HTML. Maybe wasn't the best solution but it worked...and was fast too.
The good old days kind of weren't that good. The simplicity of bare PHP was great for cowboying up sites in a hurry, but it's not a system that handles complexity well.
Sometimes I miss the old good days with PHP mixed in HTML. Maybe wasn't the best solution but it worked...and was fast too.
Granted the person who wrote it obviously didn't care but that setup was awful for anything of any size.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer my code naked, plain php and postgres, nothing else, not even JS. So for me, echo 'Hello world' is good enough.
Users overwhelmingly prefer some amount of client-side interaction, so how do you do that without JavaScript?