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Welcome to the MVC World This book is about CodeIgniter and the world of Model - View - Controller (MVC)

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 10 Comparing PHP MVC Frameworks When you look at CodeIgniter, Symfony, and CakePHP, you ’ ll notice

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 11 Figure 1 - 4 illustrates a typical CakePHP model. Figure 1-4 Symfony ’ s approach allows you to us

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 12 Strictly speaking, CodeIgniter doesn ’ t require models at all. Although this may seem a bit confusing at

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 13 In the following sections, you see how you ’ d go about doing that. The examples provided in the next few

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 14 The fetchHomePage() function is very simple, but it pays huge dividends to understand what is going on

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 15 As before, this controller is bare - bones, consisting of just an initialization function that ties this

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 16 } function index(){ $this- > load- > model(‘Page_model’,’’,TRUE); $data[‘conte

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 17 Notice the use of the $content array whenever you access what you need. You may be wondering about that

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 18displaysdata forloads index()runs fetchHomePage()loadsloadsusercontrollerviewmodelFigure 1-5 A Slightly D

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 19Using Third-Party Templating SystemsMost of the time, you’ll want to use PHP templates with CodeIgniter, a

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 2 In fact, a newbie programmer ’ s first PHP page probably looks a lot like this one: < ?phpinclude_once

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 20 Note the two additions to the index() method: loading the parser library and then calling the parser, p

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 21 < ?phpclass Page_model extends Model{ function Page_model(){ parent::Model(); }

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 22 Next, use the auto_typography() function in the view: < html > < head > < title

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 3 Six months later, the programmer gets a call from the client, and the problems begin — not big problems

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 4 }else{ $hp[‘title’] = “Welcome to our web site!”; $hp[‘css’] = “default.css”; $hp[‘bodycopy’] =

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 5extend. Furthermore, MVC frameworks are usually pretty structured, allowing the developer to concentrate on

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 6 Because of MVC ’ s three - part separation, developers can create multiple views and controllers for any

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 7 If they want to change the number of blog posts that get retrieved (or even the order in which they are d

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 8that knew how to render what you wanted to render. For example, if you wanted to draw a rectangle or a circ

Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World 9 The next step in MVC (no pun intended) occurred with the arrival of the NeXT operating system and its soft