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Hey people!
I decided to start a blog (yep. In 2025.)
So I wrote a back-end using PB for the server side and SB for the administration.
I know there already are hundreds of those available; but reinventing the wheel is fun and I learned a lot along the way.

There is the code, if you ever want to do something using CGI, there isn't that many examples available in PureBasic: https://git.lastlife.net/LastLife/SelfHost/

Happy new year, everybody!

Always good to see native solutions, thanks for sharing.

WOW!! Like Idle already said, always nice to see native. Thanks so much!!!

1. Create Server/includes/secrets.pbi based on the example and fill in your settings

Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't found an example how to create secrets.pbi.

A real good idea to demonstrate the powerfull association of the two brothers
I don't think anyone had thought to do that before, or at least shared it.
Thanks for that very nice idea and present

Reality check

No. Don't even. Use a real blog backend, there are so many of them!

Any context? Not production ready? Security holes? Battle tested?

Where is your blog located? Anyway, good job!

infratec wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2026 1:28 pm

1. Create Server/includes/secrets.pbi based on the example and fill in your settings

Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't found an example how to create secrets.pbi.

Yep, you must be blind. I would NEVER have forgotten to include the example file...

Ahem.

So, anyway, it's there now, sorry .

Rinzwind wrote: Sat Jan 03, 2026 5:03 am Any context? Not production ready? Security holes? Battle tested?

The three main reasons are the terrible UX of the admin panel, it's a solo project, and it's very early and untested: I just wrote a second article on my blog and discovered a minor bug.

Rinzwind wrote: Sat Jan 03, 2026 5:03 am Where is your blog located? Anyway, good job!

Thanks! You made me realise I should add it to my signature on the forum.

Look really nice, good job mixing PB + SB. You did frontpage with SB too?
Just for curiosity, can use requests too, like PHP or is just to show static webs/blogs?
Thanks for share!

minimy wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 7:48 pm Look really nice, good job mixing PB + SB. You did frontpage with SB too?
Just for curiosity, can use requests too, like PHP or is just to show static webs/blogs?

The front page is in good old html, powered by Materialize. SpiderBasic is much more adapted to web app than web page.
It can handle request, I have a contact form doing it, but there isn't any helper to do so. There is a solution for a very advanced server with a PHP equivalent entirely written in PB : https://atomicwebserver.com/. It's super impressive and much more powerful.

Thanks for answer and share, nice code for blogs.
I know atomic server is great! like other codes from idle. Great programmer.