December 21, 2013
Chris
, , ,
Comments Off on Preview-release of (my) “php-mvc” project (a simple php mvc barebone)

Preview-release of (my) “php-mvc” project (a simple php mvc barebone)

php mvc

php-mvc

Voila! The very first pre-final release of the “php-mvc” repository is online: https://github.com/panique/php-mvc and http://www.php-mvc.net. It’s a very simple but very useful barebone application written in PHP. This little thing is not another framework, it is simply a totally reduced file-and-folder structure that should 1.) help developers to create PHP applications without a framework the right way and 2.) show younger devs how “good” code could look like and how MVC applications are structured. I know, some people will scream now “but why you don’t learn Zend2 etc. ?”, but that’s exactly the point: Many younger developers simply have problems to learn Zend2 etc.! Most mainstream frameworks, even the micro ones, are really hard to understand, even with some years of PHP experience.

It’s a common problem that masses of non-professional developers try to build PHP applications in their own way, without having ever heard of MVC or how to organize such a project. This usually results in a quite wild and weird file structure, with more than 15 php files for just handling one little form, and a horrible mix of database requests, HTML and CSS and php-generated JavaScript. I think we all have gone through this. The php-mvc project/repository (I’m still in the name-finding process) tries to solve that problem by providing an extremely easy-to-learn skeleton application for PHP projects, while it DOES NOT try to be a real framework. Everything is as non-automatic as possible. Everything is as clean as possible, as reduced as possible.

The project aims at people with shorter PHP experience, but tries to fit the most modern PHP standards at the same time. We are talking about PSR-1/2, autoloaders, Composer, PDO, MVC for sure, potential Unit Testing (just a plan!), Post/Redirect/Get, speaking variables/methods, proper comments etc.

To give a short introduction how this project looks and behaves, check out these 5 tutorials I’ve made (they are currently images, as this is the best possibility to bring stuff like that into a GitHub README file): And, you’ll find a file/folder structure explanaition on the last one.

php mvc tutorial - part 1

php mvc barebone tutorial part 2

php mvc barebone tutorial part 2

php mvc barebone tutorial part 4

php mvc barebone tutorial part 5

Looks quite okay I think. It would be awesome if everybody who’s interested could try out this thing and give feedback, commit improvements or just send hatemails because this project is totally useless. The repo URL is https://github.com/panique/php-mvc, feel to do whatever you want with this skeleton app.