MVC and Code Organization
Learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern and how to implement it in PHP for better code organization.
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PHP as a programming language is easy to learn and implement. However, it’s also a language that can easily deteriorate into spaghetti code—different types of code all jumbled and tangled with no clear point of entry. Because PHP is often used in conjunction with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it’s more likely to be part of spaghetti code. It’s not recommended to write spaghetti code because it’s much harder to maintain and change, not to mention treating its bugs.
To prevent the deterioration of our code into spaghetti code, we organize our code into files and folders. A good question to ask here is how we can separate the logical part that PHP is responsible for from the template part in which HTML is the main component. The simplest way ...