This is a personal project I made to teach myself how MVC works so I can use it for future projects. I did it by taking portions of code from different PHP courses I took (see Acknowledgements below). Some of the topics I learnt by doing this:

• MVC pattern and OOP
• WTH is a Router and how does that work?
• How to use regular expressions
• Handling databases with PDO

1. Download as .zip or clone this repo using
   git clone https://github.com/crjoseabraham/php-mvc.git
2. Import the data/todo_db.sql file to phpMyAdmin
3. Install composer
   https://getcomposer.org/download/
4. Run composer install
5. Start your Apache server and go to http://localhost/php-basic-mvc

You're done :)

As most MVC frameworks, this project flows through public/index.php and loads the correspondant page base on the URL

php-mvc/ config/ # Database credentials, utility functions, constants used frequently data/ # SQL database file public/ # Accessible files. What final users see css/ # Compiled css file js/ # Compiled javascript file index.php # Starting point for the entire app src/ # Application source code app/ # Router class, routes.php controllers/ # Controller classes models/ # Model classes views/ # Views .htaccess # Make src/ unaccessible for users vendor/ # Composer files, autoloader !ignored .gitignore # Files/folders to be ignored by version control .htaccess # Redirect everything to public/ folder composer.json # Composer dependency file 

I did this by making a combination of what I learnt from some online PHP courses I took

• The PHP Practitioner by Laracasts
• Write PHP like a Pro by Dave Hollingworth
• Object Oriented PHP & MVC by Brad Traversy