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Let's face it, the www has become a disgusting cesspool of
horrible corporate excrement. As such, when we needed a web
store to sell our art, the only viable option seemed to be
to build a site completely from scratch.
Shopify is a terrible company, firing employees for not
using AI (1), as is pretty much every other off-the-shelf
platform out there.
Now, I absolutely loathe web development with the fury of a
thousand suns. To make the experience slightly less painful,
I decided to implement the entire back-end of the website in
pascal - a programming language I am quite fond of.
The pascal-side of the webdev experience has been quite
pleasant, with the horrible bits, naturally remaining to be
js/css.
I made a wee video on how web development is done in
FreePascal - I tried to give a birds-eye view of how it all
works, and it still ended up being an hour-long video. That
probably is more because I suck at brevity when it comes to
stuff I am passionate about :)
In any event,- here's the video:
https://toobnix.org/w/416YvuMh8okVhgTXzBPmNy
In the video I forgot to give an example of how the thing is
configured with the ini file, so below is an example ini
configuration file:
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[Database]
Host = "127.0.0.1"
Password = "photronic"
Port = "5432"
Name = "photronic"
User = "photronic"
[Daemon]
PidFile = /var/run/photronic.pid
Port = 8008
User = photronic
Group = photronic
[Email]
From = "
[email protected]"
Host = "mail.example.com"
Password = "changeme"
Port = "587"
User = "
[email protected]"
[Paths]
; Following paths are url paths, not filesystem paths.
CssPath = "/assets/css"
FontPath = "/assets/fonts"
ImagePath = "/assets/img"
JsPath = "/assets/js"
ShippingLabelUri = "/assets/shippingLabels"
; These are filesystem paths.
ProductPath = "./assets/products"
ShippingLabelDirectory = "./assets/shippingLabels"
Templates = "./templates"
ProductImagePath = "./assets/products/thumbnails"
[Paypal]
ApiUrl = "
https://api-m.sandbox.paypal.com"
ClientId = "changeme"
ClientSecret = "changeme"
JsApiUrl = "
https://sandbox.paypal.com"
[Session]
TimeoutMinutes = 240
[ShipStation]
ApiKey = "TEST_changeme"
ApiUrl = "
https://api.shipstation.com"
StoreId = "TEST1234"
[Shipping]
FromAddress1 = "13 Elm Street"
FromAddress2 = "suite 23"
FromCity = "Champaign"
FromCountry = "US"
FromPostalCode = "61821"
FromStateProvince = "Illinois"
ShipsInDays = 3
[Site]
BaseUri = "/"
Domain = "example.com"
Port = 80
Protocol = "http"
ProductImageUri = "/assets/products/thumbnails"
[Tasks]
MailerInterval = 600
ShippingUpdateInterval = 14400
[Taxes]
TaxableStates = "Illinois=6.25"
[USPS]
AccountNumber = "1000315338"
ApiUrl = "
https://apis.usps.com"
ConsumerKey = "example"
ConsumerSecret = "example"
CRID = "53403854"
MID = "903956241"
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I did my best to make most stuff configurable, so I think if some-
one were to want to re-use this code, they'd probably just have to
rename photronicsite to whateversite :P I'm not 100% sure though,
I may have the name 'photronic' in other places - nothing you
wouldn't be able to find with a quick grep.
If you're interested in a copy of this, you can register on my git
gitea interface (2) which should get you access.
(1)
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/08/1518213/
(2)
https://linkerror.com/git/
