Merlin 🤖

I'm confused! I'm reading up on the MVC approach. I've created a SPA using this approach but don't really understand what I'm doing as it was using a basic tutorial. I'm pretty sure what I produced was client-side for asynchronous updating using AJAX and JSON! So this would be the JavaScript Front end approach where frameworks like Angularjs and Backbone.js are used right??? However, when I read up about this it's all about using the SPA approach for a mobile application which I visualise for mobile app development rather than the web. If then I want to produce a website with DB interrogation, should I be looking at PHP MVC approaches that are server side and use frameworks like Codeigniter and Cakephp? Can someone please try and explain 'simply' which approach is the better for creating dynamic web content? I'm aware that there isn't a one size fits all approach but i need a starting point. Thanks

Hi, I have a form which when it's submitted it says it has been successfully submitted but the form doesn't refresh so all the details are still present. Ideally I'd like to the form to clear so the user knows their details have been submitted. Please can you point me in the right direction as to how to do this? thanks

Hi, Can someone please help me get my head around this MVC approach? I'm new to PHP and I've been led to believe MVC is the way to go for asynchronous re-loading and re-useable code. Sorry to be so naive about the following, but if I could get some answers this would really help! If MVC is the way to go, what was the old way called? And is this being abandoned due to AJAX and asynchronous loading? It’s hard to find a tutorial that directly says ‘PHP MVC approach’ for some reason, any suggestions of sites, books which directly show you how to implement this approach using AJAX and JSON would be welcomed? I take it, if created for say a login on an app, the code could be directly transferred to a responsive site without much alteration? Should I use a framework? I would some good sound tutorials first I think?? Any other info, thoughts on MVC would be much appreciated.