On 10 Jan 2021 15:13:39 GMT
TimS  wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2021 at 12:33:26 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:15:58 +0000
> > The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> >
> >>  So PHP is not equivalent to JavaScript. PHP is fine at interrogating
> >>  databases and doing a lot of server side stuff, but for popup
> >> dialogues and menus that expand you need Javascript.
> >
> >  I thought those could be done in HTML and CSS these days.
>
> Not if you have a sequence of popups, where the content of a subsquent one
> depends on the choice made in the previous one. And the choices in them,
> or even whether they are presented at all, depends on what you read out
> of your databases server-side.

 I'd think sending the whole decision tree up front should work, it
worked fine back when I was doing directory trees in early JavaScript on
Netscape 2.

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