Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss
Someone asked in this chain about what was so bad about PHP in the "old times". There were quite a few problems with earlier versions of PHP, especially 5 or older. Register globals was on, I can't even begin to explain how bad that was. the mysql library was very prone to SQL injection, but was

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
Thanks, but I’ve never used Lazarus. It would probably take several hours to get familiar enough with it to do a presentation. Surely there must be someone in Phoenix who can give a live presentation of Lazarus (or anywhere for a virtual presentation). There are plenty of videos on YT and vario

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-04-21 02:12, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700 Hi, This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has to do with resources give

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:43:39 -0700 >So I turned back to Delphi and didn’t look back. Hi David, Would you like to give a Lazarus demo/presentation at a future online GoLUG meeting? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for

Re: WordPress moving away from PHP to JavaScript

2024-04-21 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:32:10 -0700 >Hi, > >This article says WordPress is moving away from PHP to JavaScript. I >think WordPress is shooting itself in the foot. My main question has >to do with resources given the shift from server side processing to >browser b