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Asked: 2026-06-08T17:20:14+00:00

I have the following data flow for a simple login form. User access controller

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I have the following data flow for a simple login form.

User access controller PHP file. Controller includes model.php and view.php

User submits form, controller sends POST data to model methods, and gets a result back.

User is logged in, and forwarded to a different view (login success message) by the controller.

Currently my views are static HTML (no PHP), so here is my question. What is the correct way to then pass the user a welcome message, e.g “Hello, Craig!”?

Is the view allowed PHP snippets, e.g 

<?php echo $username; ?>

since the model is loaded before it in the controller file?

Thanks!

Edit: Is it better practice then to allow the view to access specific class methods e.g 

<?php $user->getUsername(); ?>

as opposed to just variables?

Based on other answers, I have found a very useful article, which you may also be interested in.

http://www.nathandavison.com/posts/view/7/custom-php-mvc-tutorial-part-5-views

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can really put anything in a view that you’d like, but to better adhere to the MVC way of doing things you should restrict PHP in the view to simple echos or prints (possibly really small loops as well, although even those can be pre-calculated in the controller/model). Since that is the only way to get dynamic content, it would be a little silly to say that they are not allowed.

    The idea of the view is to let it have a more HTML look-and-feel, so that front-end developers or people who don’t know PHP can easily be able to work with the file without getting confused.

    Update

    To learn more about MVC in general, you can see any of these (there’s a ton of tutorials out there):

    http://blog.iandavis.com/2008/12/09/what-are-the-benefits-of-mvc/

    http://php-html.net/tutorials/model-view-controller-in-php/

    http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/model-view-controller.html

    To see concrete examples of PHP using MVC, I suggest downloading some of the more prevelant frameworks (such as CodeIgniter, Symfony or Drupal) and just looking through the code. Try to figure out how it works and then recreate the functionality for a simple article-based system.

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