I’m planning on writing several posts on the Yii framework (for PHP 5), which I’ve been using for the past several months. Before getting into that, though, I thought it’d be worth while to write about the MVC—Model-View-Controller—architecture first. MVC (first defined 30 years ago!) has become a standard approach for frameworks and many other types of application development, where the emphasis is on separating presentation from logic. By taking this route, you can more easily tweak individual parts without (hopefully) breaking the whole.
The basic concept is relatively simple to understand, but I found that the actual implementation of the pattern can be tricky. In other words, it can take some time to master where you put your actual code. In this post, I write about the individual pieces and how the relate to each other. In a follow-up post, I’ll write about how to communicate between them, and what in the world $this means at any particular point! Continue Reading…
