Question

how do you trigger a MVC application.

im only used to use procedural coding. since everything are classes, how do i trigger the first method, where should this method be put, and what should the class holding this starter method be called?

thanks

Answer 1

This is too general of a question. The answer will be subjective, because it can be done in many different ways. Your best bet is to look at a simple, lightweight MVC framework, see how they did it, and use that as a guide. I recommend checking out LightVC.

Generally all requests are routed through an index.php file. The request url is inspected to figure out what class file to include. For example, a request to /users/login would fire up Users_Controller, and then it would execute the login() method on the Users_Controller class. This is how most frameworks do it, but like I said, you should look at their source to get a better feel.