space0cadet

4y

I'm remaking my website: https://boysdontcry.net/experiences/
I made this in Wordpress, I've been teaching myself html/css over the past week or two.
I've remade the whole website now, in HTML & CSS.
I just don't know how to fetch the data inputted into the forms. How do I get this data to be sent to the server? This involves some back-end type language, right?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

texmaker

4y

You got a database right? Why don't you use a post request through AJAX/jQuery

Also maybe read this if you haven't : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/Sending_and_retrieving_form_data

space0cadet

4y

don't know javascript yet -- ima set this project aside till i do (: thanks for the pointer, appreciate you.

texmaker

4y

You don't necessarily need javascript but you're gonna need a backend framework - any of them would be fine, just choose whatever language you want to learn.

Also if your website is just simple html/css might be a good opportunity to learn about frontend frameworks like React and maybe use some library like material or at least use bootstrap

Wordpress is nice to make some simple stuff but it's pretty outdated and not that in demand anymore compared to the modern frameworks

For javascript just read the mozilla tutorials : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript
For react (or any frameworks you want to use) read the official documentation : https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html and just google stuff on stackoverflow whenever you run into an issue

texmaker

4y

You don't necessarily need javascript but you're gonna need a backend framework - any of them would be fine, just choose whatever language you want to learn.

Also if your website is just simple html/css might be a good opportunity to learn about frontend frameworks like React and maybe use some library like material or at least use bootstrap

Wordpress is nice to make some simple stuff but it's pretty outdated and not that in demand anymore compared to the modern frameworks

For javascript just read the mozilla tutorials : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript
For react (or any frameworks you want to use) read the official documentation : https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html and just google stuff on stackoverflow whenever you run into an issue

space0cadet

4y

Frameworks are just like.. templates for the website, right? kind of? it shaves off some time from building everything from scratch?

space0cadet

4y

also javascript has back-end capabilities?? thats what AJAX/jQuery is?

texmaker

4y

Hmm not sure how much of programming you know so I'll try to explain to it simply:
So most modern web apps have this architecture that's divided in 3 parts :

• presentation layer : content rendered by the browser (front-end)
• business layer : content processing and generation level application server, e.g., Java EE, ASP.NET, PHP (middleware)
• data layer : the database, comprising both data sets and the database management system or RDBMS software that manages and provides access to the data (back-end)

Frameworks/libraries are tools that are here to help you write a layer of the application through following their logic.
You can write an app without using them BUT they make programming easier for you and promote good programming practices all the while reducing code needed to be written for your application to work.
It's way better to use any framework that fits your needs than to program everything from scratch.

oogie

4y

project suggestions? i have no idea what to make

texmaker

4y

https://github.com/karan/Projects
https://github.com/tastejs/awesome-app-ideas

space0cadet

4y

I'm remaking my website: https://boysdontcry.net/experiences/
I made this in Wordpress, I've been teaching myself html/css over the past week or two.
I've remade the whole website now, in HTML & CSS.
I just don't know how to fetch the data inputted into the forms. How do I get this data to be sent to the server? This involves some back-end type language, right?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Mangaka

4y

@​S
Any web devs or people getting into web development?

oogie

4y

stressed. i suck at doing projects, cause i keep going back tutorials to make sure i know enough to do them

oogie

4y

stressed. i suck at doing projects, cause i keep going back tutorials to make sure i know enough to do them

SBMike

4y

Yea that’s fine. You’re still learning like this, and even the most experienced developers still look at documentation for whatever language or framework they’re using often.

donald glover

4y

i think thats okay... i build a lot of things referring back to tutorials. as long as you are learning i guess.

oogie

4y

what kind of things do you make?

donald glover

4y

nothing worth sharing

still learning a lot. the biggest project i've made is an e-commerce website w/ a login, a cms, a cart + checkout, etc. did it to practice front-end + back-end.