[Phpwm] MVC in PHP

[Keith Pope]

Have you looked at the zend framework, I love the MVC model in this, not
too sure about the rest but its worth a look. It is only a preview atm
but is looking very promising.

We use a very similar approach to david, not a formal framework but just
a load of stuff to make dev faster and easier. I do keep all my main
functionality within my php include path so if anything needs bug fixing
it applies it to all my sites.



-----Original Message-----
From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 16 May 2006 11:51
To: phpwm at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Phpwm] MVC in PHP

> At the PHPWM meeting it was interesting to learn more about the Smarty
> templating system, especially the fact that it is being used in large
scale
> applications. Smarty is something that I had never serious considered
using
> before. I have decided now is a good time to reflect on how I write my
PHP
> applications and the pro's and con's of alternative techniques.

I'm glad it was of use (my talk and resulting discussion)

> 
> For those of you that do use MVC do you use a formal prewritten
framework or
> have you invented/written your own?

I've looked at a number (symfony, cake) but I always seem to think "But
I want to be able to do this....." or "I don't want to have to have a
serial field as a primary key for each table"....  or "how can that
framework map onto this legacy data..."


So, so far, we've just built up a number of functions and suchlike that
we use 
to make our lives easier (e.g. functions to fetch stuff out of
$_POST/$_GET/$_REQUEST with automatic sanitisation, using Smarty,
functions to 
make database queries more concise etc) - most of these are all 'we keep
repeating the same code for this, so let's make a function to do it for
us'.

I'm tempted to do something, but I don't know if it would get called a
framework. What we use at the moment isn't readily portable across 
different projects - so fixing a bug in one project probably means
another 
project needs the same patch.

thanks
David.


-- 
David Goodwin 

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]

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