I've had this webspace for quite some time already, and only now is it starting to look like something. That's because there are some requirements I wanted this website to meet, which I managed to do by typing all of the code myself. Here's what I achieved that way.
Oh, before I go on... Although I tried to keep this page easy to understand it will still get pretty geeky.
This website only contains the code I typed myself. So, it should all look squeeky clean. Both HTML and PHP are plain text anyway, so... :-)
As of the date I'm posting this, my website contains 10 redirects. I made them so that, if someone asks for, say, a link to a social platform I use, I could say something like: "You can find it at bertvisscher.net/..." followed by something which depends on what I'm asked for.
See that date at the top of the page? No, that wasn't typed by me while I wrote this post. I made some PHP which takes the name of the directory the post is saved in, and then puts dashes in the right places.
I didn't want to have to type the same code in several files, let alone in every blog post, so I did what I could to...ahem..."include" lines of code. If you understand PHP, then you know what I mean. It's basically making a file with lines that are used on multiple pages and then saying, in every file in which I want to use them, "include /includes/theselines.inc here".
The page at bertvisscher.net/blog shows a list of all the blog posts I type. Of course, I could enter a line for each post manually, but what if I forget one? That's why I use PHP to make that list for you, every time you visit bertvisscher.net/blog.
Yes, you read that right. Every time you visit that page, some PHP code makes a list of all the blog posts I put on this website, especially for you.
I've done it before, on the website of an organization I've worked for.
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