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Hi all, I have just put together a tentative proof of concept MVC framework proposal. After many weeks of slogging through an array of PHP MVC tutorials and courses (some of which I paid for) I have decided to strip back all the frills, bells and whistles to try and put together a core proof of concept that uses best practices. In this simplified example I am trying to test the viability of the framework itself... so there is no routing code or query string management and the controller and action are hard coded. Here is the repository: https://github.com/JethroHazelhurst/psr-4-mvc I like this framework because it: Has clear seperation of concerns Is not cluttered with static functions Is clearly namespaced - thanks to the PSR-4 autoloading Has a clear way of passing data to and from the model - e.g. $this->_view->foo = $this->_model->getBar(); Below is the directory structure: and here is a print_r of my Object structure: Questions I am interested in hearing any feedback on the idea... I can't see any glaring issues at them moment. Some questions in the back of my mind are: Are there any dangers in heavily depending on the parent::__construct() function to call parent classes? In the controller, is passing data from Model to View using $this->_view->foo = $this->_model->getBar(); good practice? Are there any dangers in using Namespaces? I am also interested in reading up on MVC framework best practices so if anyone can recommend some resources I would be very grateful. It seems like there are a million ways to write an MVC framework, I am confused as to which way is best practice. EDIT: Hmm, can't seem to get a list to display here...

Hi. I'm not exactly new to PHP but I am brand new to this community. I have been PHP aware for about 5 years but in all that time the amount of coding I have actually done has been rather pathetic. I work for a company that is quite... insular, and secluded (their choice, not mine) from the wider developer community. As a result I only discovered PHP Frameworks about a year ago and feel quite behind the times. I am used to writing procedural PHP and not much else. I am here to hopefully broaden my horizons and get a better understanding of Frameworks, OOP, SQLi or PDO or database "unspecific" applications. When I first discovered PHP Frameworks about a year ago, my friend suggested I get started using CodeIgniter (that seems to be a lot of newbies' first choice!). I loved it, but after reading various rantings and ravings on the internet I decided that I should probably move on to something more "professional". That's when I came up against SF2 and almost cried myself to sleep every night. It made no sense to me. It still makes no sense to me. I gave up. After that I tried Laravel but couldn't even get going thanks to something called "Composer" which I still don't understand. I thought to myself, "I don't want to learn about dependencies at this stage, I just want to code". I gave up. Then another friend suggested I use PHP Slim. Another Framework. I tried to work with it but it seemed heavily dependant on knowing OOP, and I didn't have the first clue what I was doing. I gave up (are you sensing a pattern here?) So after that, I decided to try and learn the basics of OOP and how/why it was better than procedural and I have to say - I don't think it is. And I kind of hate it. I find it really confusing and not one person I have asked is able to tell me why OOP is better than procedural. They say "it just is". Sigh.... Then I decided to join PHP Freaks so I could vent my frustrations!

Hi guy I hope someone can help with this as im really panicking over it. Ok so im building my first CMS ever! Its about 5 months down the line. Im self taught so making lots of mistakes but im getting there. From the beginning I've been using..... http://caroufredsel.dev7studios.com/ for image scrollers and such. Works great!!!!!! I highly recommend!!!!!!! Basically I've come to check my webpage and it looks great. my images scroll and my services scroll. Ive checked it in Crome, firefox, safari, IE8, IE9 and it looks great. However load it in IE7 and real problems occur. It seems all my CSS to do with the carousel boxes just gets completely ignored! As much as i dont want to show a site that is working in a awful state with broken links and text im afraid ill have to for the purpose of this post. Please view the site in any browser then view it in IE 7 and you will see what I mean. wooden.yourarena.co.uk/ I have the code for the scroller below. $(document).ready(function() { $("#servicescroller").carouFredSel({ width: "100%", responsive: true, circular:true, infinite:true, height: 340, items: { visible: { min: 3, max: 4 }, width: 220, height: "variable", }, scroll: { duration: 1000, items: 1, pauseOnHover: true }, auto: 4000, swipe: true, mousewheel: true }); $("#foo<?php echo $row['randname'];?>").carouFredSel({ prev : { button : "#foo_prev", key : "left", items : 1, easing : "easeInOutCubic", duration : 750 }, next : { button : "#foo_prev", key : "right", items : 1, easing : "easeInQuart", duration : 1500 }, width: 500, height: 245, items : { visible :1, minimum: 1, width: 500, height: 250, }, direction : "up", scroll : { fx: "crossfade", pauseOnHover: true, }, auto : { duration : 2000, timeoutDuration: 5000, delay: 3000, pauseOnEvent: 'resume', } }).find(".<?php echo $row['randname'];?>").hover( function() { $(this).find("div").slideDown(); }, function() { $(this).find("div").slideUp(); } ); }); I have tried every combination of trailing comma's with and without and nothing seems to fix it. I can only assume something else on the page is interfering but I cant see what. I have used this scroller over and over and never had this problem. Can someone please at least tell me a way to debug the error or to even find what the error is. Im in dyer need of help as I have deadlines coming up which I am already way too far behind and I have no clue what the problem is. Thanks for your time guys

Amigos, Coming from desktop applications environment, I have been playing around with PHP for months now, I am so comfortable with it. I understood that frameworks should help me do many things better and faster; I see the benefit, however once I start learning it, I get many problems as I can not see the real base logic behind it and I get lost easily. It seems to me that it is easier to build from the zero in pure PHP, rather than learning a framework, which I can not understand totally. Yii was my choice.. I don't think it has anything to do with the specific choice... Any advice? Did I have a wrong approach ?? Advices about good resources to start with it??? or may be I should just keep it with pure PHP?!??