omg, invoking php-nuke brings me back. fun era (recent php2shell wild ride notwithstanding). Honestly it's more like web 1.5 - not straight up hand written html but no wild client side stuff either.
replyAnd yes, there absolutely was a "look" that's a product of the technology of the time - tables for design, limited styling / js support, php "components" that you could load and replace as part of your portal, and "themes".
and it's so fast. clicks respond instantaneously even though the whole page has to be fetched and re-rendered.
replywe lost so much with SPAs and js everywhere.
htmx will save us!
That's how gitea/forgejo feel. Most pages don't do ajax but it's still super fast.
replyMy online diary started with PHP-Nuke. Then went to PostNuke for many years. Then to Drupal, where it still is. 26 years of content hehe. (Wish I’d picked Wordpress instead of Drupal but too many links to change now)
reply> PHP-Nuke
replyThere's a name I haven't heard in a while!
Thank you - flashback achieved!
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