On 10 Jan 2021 at 15:35:20 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
wrote:

> 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.

Er no. It will get out of hand when you have 30 in the first popup, 40 in the
second, and 30 again in the third. When I did the front end to an assets
database at my last job, that's how I started it. I could see it wasn't going
to scale.

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Tim

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