Without a framework: (M)VC

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Dec 122006

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Step 1 – A basic setup

Lets get started. First create a directory structure.

/var/www/mvctest
|- controllers
|- static
|- views

Create a new virtual host ‘mvctest.localhost’, with ‘/var/www/mvctest’ as the DocumentRoot. Make sure AllowOverwrite is set to All, because where going to use a .htaccess file.

Next up is the controller class:
[SOURCE::mvctest/step1/controllers/HelloWorld.php::php]
When you browse to ‘http://mvctest.localhost/controllers/HelloWorld.php’, a controller object is created and index() is invoked, showing “Hello World”.

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5 Responses to “Without a framework: (M)VC”

Jefflee says:

17 January 2008 at 09:28

oops… I saw in the post “Perl like temporary variables in PHP”, you said personally you dislike MVC at all?
confused
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Arnold Daniels says:

17 January 2008 at 13:19

Hi Jefflee,

I think it is not really possible to dislike something you haven’t tried. I’ve tried MVC for a few projects and did not like it. Especially for websites it is doing more bad than good. Still my remark at the other post might be a bit to harsh. MVC might be a good strategy for other types of web-apps.

Arnold
PS. You’re reading my blog really closely. Kudos to you
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fatigue says:

31 August 2008 at 17:05

Hi Arnold,

First of all, thank you very much for your post, altough I found very late. I think as you are, about ‘single file entry point’ and I searched about other ways to reach VC components only.

I like your way. But I have some comments. Your .htaccess file is not working on my apache server. Therefore I used my .htacess as given below:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /controllers/helloworld.php [QSA] [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)?$ controllers/$1.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)?$ controllers/$1.php?action=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)?$ controllers/$1.php?action=$2&var=$3 [QSA]

If you are any advice about your .htaccess modification, I will be appreciated.

And the another point for views. How can we use multiple template with your approach?

Regards
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