If you had caught me before I wrote any part of Base::HTML, your way could be used. However, what you are suggesting is that I totally destroy everything I have now and start from scratch. That fills me with a lot of anxiety. It has taken a lot of time to get to where I am now, and to start from the beginning for the second time makes my stomach knot up. I would have to delete everything and start with a blank slate and that is just not palatable. Base::HTML is part of everything I write to display scripts in a browser. Base::Menu would have to be tossed, and that was the key to making the site possible in the first place. The code for that took me a long time to get. I will muddle through with my current structure even if it isn't ideal.

I know you are doing your best to explain this concept to show how it would make my life easier, however I don't want to spend several more agonizing years trying to get it to work. With everything hinging on those four Base:: modules, a rewrite is only possible if I delete them and everything dependent on them and start all over. I just can't do it right now.

There are non-code real life factors that are clouding my judgment at the moment too, making it doubly hard for me to see any silver linings. I'm sorry that I can't get the courage up to do it your way, but my way is easy enough to understand for me. I am still using ANSI encoding instead of the more popular UTF-8 encoding because I have encountered too many problems with that conversion.

I hope that someone who is just starting out sees your advice before they get too deep into a structure that is like mine. Hopefully, it will keep them from making my mistake of having everything so dependent on everything else. Thank you for trying to help me understand.