Saturday, January 16, 2010

Frameless PHP, or How to Write Ruby-on-Rails-like PHP Without a Framework

If you’re disciplined, you can write MVC code in PHP without using an MVC framework. The key is to have the right directory structure. For the Dowling's Wheel project I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I simply used the directory structure from Ruby on Rails. And no framework.

/app
..../controller
..../helpers
..../models
..../views
/db
/lib
/public
..../images
..../javascripts
..../stylesheets
/test
index.php

Check out the source code to see how it’s done.
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4 comments:

  1. Derek Neighbors1/17/2010 8:57 p.m.

    Always amazed that people so often think the only way to do MVC is through a framework. Nice to see someone talking about rolling something light weight.

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  2. Jonathan1/17/2010 10:35 p.m.

    Thanks Derek!

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  3. Unknown3/09/2010 10:54 a.m.

    I'm doing the same but with Pyton and webpy. Check this out:

    http://github.com/alexksikes/googlemodules

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  4. Jonathan3/10/2010 12:07 a.m.

    Cool stuff, Alex!

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