Examine the building blocks that make any good MVC framework using PHP 8. This book exposes all the considerations that many developers take for granted when using a popular framework, and teaches you how to make this MVC framework your own.

You'll quickly get started writing your first bit of framework code, then, you build a variety of examples using aspects of an MVC framework, including a router, a template engine, a database library, a persistence engine (ORM), and a testing framework. In the next section, you'll implement sessions, caches, file systems, queues, logging, and mail. You'll wrap up by building a larger scale sample web application: a sales website for a company that sells rockets.

Along the way, this book lays bare all the secret parts of MVC to take with you to apply to your own PHP-based MVC projects.

What You Will Learn

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  Build PHP-based web applications using the model view controller (MVC) architecture

  
  


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  Write your first bit of framework code

  
  


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  Compare the code you write with how the popular frameworks do the same kinds of things

  
  


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  Wrap up with a sample case study application

  
  

Who This Book Is For

Experienced PHP and web developers. Some prior experience with PHP and web development at least recommended.