php-mvc's Introduction

Pure PHP Ready to use MVC structure

This is a personal project I made to teach myself how MVC works so I can use it for future projects. I did it by taking portions of code from different PHP courses I took (see Acknowledgements below). Some of the topics I learnt by doing this:

MVC pattern and OOP
WTH is a Router and how does that work?
How to use regular expressions
Handling databases with PDO

Installation

Download as .zip or clone this repo using
git clone https://github.com/crjoseabraham/php-mvc.git
Import the data/todo_db.sql file to phpMyAdmin
Install composer
https://getcomposer.org/download/
Run composer install
Start your Apache server and go to http://localhost/php-basic-mvc

You're done :)

Project structure

As most MVC frameworks, this project flows through public/index.php and loads the correspondant page base on the URL

php-mvc/
    config/             # Database credentials, utility functions, constants used frequently
    data/               # SQL database file
    public/             # Accessible files. What final users see
        css/            # Compiled css file
        js/             # Compiled javascript file
        index.php       # Starting point for the entire app
    src/                # Application source code
        app/            # Router class, routes.php
        controllers/    # Controller classes
        models/         # Model classes
        views/          # Views
        .htaccess       # Make src/ unaccessible for users
    vendor/             # Composer files, autoloader !ignored
    .gitignore          # Files/folders to be ignored by version control
    .htaccess           # Redirect everything to public/ folder
    composer.json       # Composer dependency file