Coding PHP that prints JS that prints HTML and hating myself and everyone who sets “requirements”.

I had this exact same issue as well as iframes within iframes within iframes in the end we spent a year rewriting our application, now all HTML/CSS/JS/PHP are separated and there is no iframe in sight :)

you haven't truly experienced being a developer until you've had to do something like this

hmm. i have seen PHP mysql ( not even MySQLi ) queries where there was no escaping, cleaning, direct call to $_POST and actual root credentials inside a CSS file, using a pretty nasty hack in .htaccess to work, once on a live site.

needless to say, i promtly denied to "patch" that and suggested a complete rewrite right there..

root in a CSS file? what

@rozzzly yup. one thing is PHP code a CSS file.

another is unencrypted credentials like that ... :D