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by raving-richard
2245 days ago
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Check out Server Side Includes. They used to be all the rage.
<!--#include virtual="../quote.txt" --> You don't need to reinvent anything. Just use what used to exist. (Also, you start doing SSI, and then you want a bit more power, so you switch to PHP, then before you know it, you go all out with PHP and MySQL. Finally, you say, "MySQL sucks, SQLite is much better and easier" (see also the other comment about SQLite). In the end you realize that nothing matters. We all die alone in the end. |
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I'm not just looking for static includes, but dynamic, real-time, editable includes built in to a framework that uses a single syntax to describe a full web app. I'm tired of using full programming languages for describing app data — and how it can be edited — when so much of what a web app can do has already been implemented a billion times.
PHP is great for that, but, in my opinion, is 500% more powerful in areas that don't count (low-level language constructs that make it Turing complete, but not ideal for building real-time, editable web apps) and 10% as powerful as it should be in areas that do count (i.e. performing higher level tasks automatically, like structuring data, syncing data between pages, moving data around, rendering data to the page easily, etc.).