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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 = "foo@example.com"
Host = "mail.example.com"
Password = "changeme"
Port = "587"
User = "foo@example.com"

[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/