On Monday, 18 June 2012, Chris Green wrote:
As you say "It's no particular language" but in reality what language and environment can you *actually* do this?
Which languages? I've personally done this sort of thing in DCL, Perl, VBScript, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Python and Java off the top of my head. But any modern language should do it.
It would be possible with a stand-alone page created using PHP I suppose but in the real world this doesn't integrate well into other applications.
Unless said application has an extension mechanism of some sort, then yes. However, if you want to fully integrate something in to a Wiki, an AJAX solution (if you don't mind mandating JavaScript) may help. But I'm afraid you'll be on an even steeper learning curve there - but AngularJS may be a good starting point.
Greg