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Is MVC just the SEO of PHP programming?
There's around a zillion "PHP frameworks". And most of them bill themselves as following the MVC pattern. While it's welcome to overcome osCommerce coding style (processing logic heavily intermixed ...
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how to structure MVC models and ORM models
I have some trouble getting a good folder structure in my project and i would like to know what other ways i could use to structure my files.
I'm currently working in an MVC sturctured folder.
www/
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Multi MVC processing vs Single MVC process
I've worked fairly extensively with the MVC framework cakephp, however I'm finding that I would rather have my pages driven by the multiple MVC than by just one MVC. My reason is primarily to maintain ...
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Controllers in CodeIgniter
I little bit new to the CodeIgniter framework and this is my first project with this framework. During a chat on StackOverflow somebody said that we need to make controllers tiny as possible.
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Rewriting a Procedural PHP App - Should we use a framework?
We have an app that's currently only got about 120 users. The userbase will probably grow by 50% over the next 12 months - but we're going to have to separate storage etc. because we're looking at ...
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Handling Errors In PHP When Using MVC
I've been using Codeigniter a lot recently, but one thing that gets on my nerves is handling errors and displaying them to the user. I've never been good at handling errors without it getting messy. ...
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New PHP project, how to best architect it
I have already done a PHP project, and I did a number of things pretty wrong :)
I just had all pages as scripts with php mixed in with html. I also wasn't using a framework like cakephp. And I didn't ...
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1answer
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Workflow for a plugin assignment
I'm starting a new project in PHP, a plugin for a website that grabs additional data from it through cURL, getContents etc and re-tabulates it in excel. It's a local project, basic script like with a ...
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How can I design a model layer without ORM, and when should I use it?
I'm a PHP developer who started with CodeIgniter. In it, designing models was easy: it seemed like each method defined in models was the equivalent of static methods in a normal, objected-oriented ...
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How is the facade pattern different from abstraction layers?
I just read about the facade pattern and found this example where a client (user of a computer) invokes a startComputer() method which calls on all the complex stuff:
Source: wikipedia
/* Complex ...
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How to output library test/benchmark data in a web framework?
I am writing an MVC framework. I have a folder full of library classes, each are self contained, and could be ripped out of the framework and used by themselves. The only problem is that a few of ...
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Should PHP view files be called something other than '.php'?
By default, any file that PHP touches is usually suffixed with .php. It's universally understood by Apache / Nginx as the default for PHP files and most setups expect PHP files to end in this ...
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Can you call any php model class in an MVC from the controller?
I'm creating a simple MVC at the moment and am wondering if it's 'correct' to be able to call any model class directly from the controller to get the data to send to the view?
I have the following ...
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Do modular PHP frameworks really improve applications?
One of the goals of modular frameworks like Kohana or Alloy is to make it easy to add and remove components (i.e. "plugins" or "modules").
However, in all the larger projects I have ever worked - the ...
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Need recommendation for transferring ASP.NET MVC skills to PHP
I am looking to translate my skills in .NET to PHP - specifically in regards to ASP.NET MVC. At work I am currently using .NET MVC 2.0 on a variety of projects and thoroughly enjoy the platform. ...
