Question

Ok I think I am pushing my self to far here, I’m createing a project in my own MVC even I don’t know what MVS is itself,

<?php    

class init
    {
        function __construct()
        {
            $this->enviroment();
            $this->start();
        }

        function enviroment()
        {
            /* Required Classes */  
            require_once( ROOTPATH . BOOTSTRAP . REDENGINE . '/class.debug.php');
            require_once( ROOTPATH . BOOTSTRAP . REDENGINE . '/class.theme.php');
            require_once( ROOTPATH . BOOTSTRAP . REDENGINE . '/class.url.php');
            require_once( ROOTPATH . BOOTSTRAP . REDENGINE . '/language/class.lang.php');
            require_once( ROOTPATH . BOOTSTRAP . REDENGINE . '/class.sessions.php');
        }
        function start()
        {   
            /* Start Classes */
            $uSys = new Urlsystem;
            $fragments = $uSys->getFragments();
            $tSys = new ThemeSystem;
            $lSys = new LanguageSystem;
            $sSys = new Sessions;   

            /* defineing APPVIEWS & APPCONTROLLER */        
            define( 'APPVIEWS', '/appviews' );
            define( 'APPCONTROLLER', '/appcontroller' );

            if ( empty($fragments) )
            {
                require_once( ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app.home.php'); /* default app controller page */
                require_once( ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view.home.php'); /* default app views page */
            }

            if ( !empty($fragments) )
            {
                // Start ENGINE
                if ( !file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app' . $fragments . '.php') &&
                     !file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view' . $fragments. '.php')
                ) {

                            if ( file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app.404.php') &&
                                 file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view.404.php')
                             ) {
                                require ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app.404.php';
                                require ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view.404.php';
                            }
                            else {
                                echo "NO 404 APP || VIEW";
                            }
                }           
                if ( file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app' .  $fragments . '.php') ) 
                {
                    require ROOTPATH . APPCONTROLLER . '/app' . $fragments . '.php'; // load application

                    if ( file_exists(ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view' .  $fragments . '.php') ) {
                        require ROOTPATH . APPVIEWS . '/view' .  $fragments . '.php';// load view
                    } 
                }
                // End ENGINE
            }       
        }
    } ?>

Ok, as you see my front controller, so I know it’s failing, I just notice my fail after I nearly finish my project, especialy when I need to do http://www.someurl.com/?$getuser or http://www.someurl.com/myname or a user.

Anyway my question is when do we really need MVC for PHP?

I’m looking at facebook, etc

They still use the ?this=blabla get so they are not MVC , is that right? Anyway I’m still confused how facebook does http://www.facebook.com/myname without it. ( htaccess ? )

If they don’t use MVC then when do we really need it?

Note :

I’ve read many thread about when use MVC, but I haven’t found one in my problem, if there is please leave a comment so I can read 🙂

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I believe you are confused between MVC and having RESTful URL scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer#RESTful_web_services).

MVC is just a coding pattern that separates entities and modules. Like Application Logic from GUI Templates while The URL pattern is a different thing altogether. URLs are just to access a Web Resource. MVC frameworks like CodeIgnitor can still give you ‘ugly’ URLs if you do not work it out with .htaccess