Introduction

php.MVC is an open source framework for PHP Web applications.

php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. This design model allows the Web page or other contents (View) to be mostly separated from the internal application code (Controller/Model), making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise.

The framework provides a single entry point Controller. The Controller is responsible for allocating HTTP requests to the appropriate Action handler (Model) based on configuration mappings.

The Model contains the business logic for the application. The Controller then forwards the request to the appropriate View component, which is usually implemented using a combination of HTML with PHP tags in the form of templates. The resulting contents are returned to the client browser, or via another protocol such as SMTP.

php.MVC is a PHP port of Jakarta Struts. It currently supports many features of Struts, including declarative application configuration via the XML digester. For example, mappings from the various Action business logic components to appropriate results pages can be specified declaratively in the XML configuration file.

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Quick Start Guide

[Quick Start Guide and Graphics - Soon]. Please start at the Main.php files. These are the main application entry points.

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Implementation Details

Resources

Please note: As php.MVC is closely modeled on the Struts framework, much of the Struts documentation and papers will be very helpful in understanding and using the php.MVC framework.

Credits

php.MVC is closely modeled on the Apache Jakarta Struts MVC framework. It also uses other third party libraries such as phpLIB and phpUnit. Without the free sharing of design and source code, this work would not be possible. Thank you.