Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club
lazyweb:
imagine you need to make an HTML page that just shows a simple form, which'll do a simple request to a backend API when the user clicks the OK button.
but you don't want to write raw HTML, use AI, or use anything cloud-hosted.
What would you use to generate this?
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Andrew Zonenberg
azonenberg@ioc.exchange@foone why would you not do this in raw html? I can't think of any alternative that would be less work
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.me@foone ok but why don't you want to write raw html because this is like four lines of html
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.me@foone if you want it to not look like a compsci professor's website it might be like 12 lines of html
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@foone i'm sure one of the 34K people who follow you will do it happily
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myrmepropagandist
futurebird@sauropods.winA long URL that submits a form?
So there is no form just a page that you can send things to like
myurl. com/lazy.php?name=Alice
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
ben@lubar.me@futurebird @foone hey alice if you say what the form needs to have on it I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to write the html for you
for example this one is
<form action="https://example.com/lazy.php">
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" required>
<br>
<button type="submit">yeah</button>
</form>
@foone describe the api's schema and use swagger-ui-dist ?
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@ellie swagger-ui's repo is flagged as having AI contributions, sadly
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@foone clay c library. but thats not very lazy I think
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club@waimus honestly I'm fine with not being lazy, I just don't want to have to write HTML tonight
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubI'm thinking of compiling a small visual basic program and embedding it into the internet archive's emularity version of windows 3.1 inside an em-dosbox on my website
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubin reality I've already written the HTML form (kinda: I copied a couple jquery-UI examples together) but I'll be happy to recreate it for fun (and to avoid writing HTML)
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.cluboh god
for the first time in over 20 years
writing some PHP code is the easiest path forward
do I fall to temptation?
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club"The package requires PHP version 8.0 or higher."
well, the last time I did any PHP, it was like... PHP 5
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubso I have no idea if that's obviously what my server has, we've been running that for a decade, or if that's like released last tuesday
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubhoping closer to the former since I don't wanna have to update PHP on a school night
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✧✦Catherine✦✧
whitequark@treehouse.systems@foone well the latest is 8.5, 8.0 is already out of support
edit: typo
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✧✦Catherine✦✧
whitequark@treehouse.systems
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubokay I wrote the PHP script. it worked just fine. I didn't die
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Charlie Stross
cstross@wandering.shop@foone OBVIOUSLY you need to find an archival copy of Visual CobolScript for Windows 95, CGI edition!
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Cursed Silicon
CursedSilicon@treehouse.systems@foone Should've gone with PHP /s
(Actually some folks on the retro network set up a PHPBB2 fork running like, PHP 4 I think?)
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club@CursedSilicon actually I did, the PHP code is already deployed.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubwow, they've got both cis and trans versions of Visual Basic.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubI just went and installed it on Win98 since Win3.1 was crashing every time
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@foone Visual BASIC was such a good idea, and I wish they'd actually made the other "Visual" languages work that way. I was super disappointed when it turned out that Visual C++ didn't actually provide any of what made Visual BASIC good.
I don't know of anything else which provides even remotely as good of a data binding layer for the UI, except maybe building apps in Access or whatever.
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