[tbelldesignco]

Good for you @tbelldesignco !.. Nice to see that there are still folks doing things the right way.

I've been campaigning against the use of frameworks (PHP's and JS's) for the last 10 years!.. Without much success I would say... Folks like to ride over the first hyped-up framework they find when they get interested in WebDev.. while knowing little to nothing on the fundamentals that those framework abstract for them... which is a shame!.. because they become locked-in in that framework logic and assumptions....

Really not the way to go!.. I'm not against frameworks entirely -although I don't use them because, to me, they are useless abstractions that prevent folks from interacting with the APIs that really matter- but more against their use without first acquiring the REAL DEAL (ie the fundamental Web technologies that are at the base of the whole thing, starting from HTTP protocols -1,2 and very soon 3- and ending with the latest HTML-5 browser API.)

I am not against them either, they have their place for rapid deployment/development and they help users learn the basics. I honestly just never have been a fan of Laravel and some of the others, so I've always stuck with Vanilla PHP and create my own libraries or use open source solutions. I think the method's used for this exam system will be fruitful, however in my mind, I love making something from the sticks up and I have a preset "core" I've worked on for the last three years that I can get a basic CMS core up and running in a matter of 30 minutes or so.

I know that JS will come in super handy for TBCMS and some of the autosave features I am trying to work on, also with adding in a range of dynamic elements that CSS itself just isn't capable of.