Question

It’s been around 5 months since I picked up a PHP book and started coding in PHP. At first, I created all my sites without any organizational plan or MVC. I soon found out that was a pain..
Then I started to read on stackoverflow on how to separate php and html and that’s what I have been doing ever since.

Ex: 
profile.php <--this file is HTML,css. I just echo the functions here. 
profile_functions.php <--this file is mostly PHP. has the functions.

This is how I have been separating all my coding so far and now I feel I should move on and start MVC. But the problem is, I never used classes before and suck with them. And since MVC (such as cakephp and codeigniter) is all classes, that can’t be good.

My question: Is there any good books/sites/articles that teaches you how to code in MVC? I am looking for beginner beginner books 🙂
I just started reading the codeigniter manuel and I think I am going to use that.

EDIT: Is it possible to have a MVC organization structure to your coding without using cake, codeigniter, etc? Basically just separate say profile.php into 3 different files(the view, controller, model)

Answer 1

to answer your question

Is it possible to have a MVC
organization structure to your coding
without using cake, codeigniter, etc?
Basically just separate say
profile.php into 3 different files(the
view, controller, model)

absolutely…

first file profile.php ( the view, what gets hit by the browser )

<?php
include( 'controllers/UsersController.php' );
$controller = new UsersController();
$controller->profile();
$pageData = $controller->data;
?>

the controller

<?php
include 'models/UsersModel.php';
class UsersController{

public $data;
public $model;

public function __construct(){
    $this->model = new UserModel();
}

public function profile(){
    $this->data = $this->model->findUser();
}

}

the model

<?php

class UsersModel{

public function __constuct(){
    // connect to your db or whatever you need to do
}

public function findUser(){
    return mysql_query( "SELECT * FROM users WHERE users.id =  2  LIMIT 1" );
}
}