Forum and website • Re: Unable to reply while editing a post

While you can have considerable code inside a database (sorry Ben! but modern databases are a lot more than just data storage), having the PHP/html layer between the user and the database is quite necessary, if for nothing else but to sanitize the requests.

Regarding logic/code in the DB: Yes, of course that is a thing. And I was being much too general in my comment. What I should have said is that if you're working with 2000s-era forum software and you find this paradigm* then something crazy is going on.

*Heavy logic in the DB (many triggers, and more?) or stored code in the DB (lines of PHP code to be executed other than a background/aysnch process queue).