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