MVC

PHP Frameworks
Topics
■ What is the framework?
■ Why framework?
■ MVC Framework.
■ Benefits and Drawbacks of
MVC.
■ PHP Frameworks
■ Example application using one
of framework
■ Screenshots
■ References
What is a framework ?
For example, in order for a program to get data from a mysql database, it has to undergo a list of
actions:
1. Connect to the database server

2. Select a database
3. Query the database
4. Fetch the data
5. Use the Data
A framework may handle steps 1-4 for you, so that your responsibilities are reduced to:
1. Tell the framework to fetch the data

2. Use the data
Sample program in single tire architecture
Connect to database :
$db_host = “localhost";
$db_name = “test";
$db_username = “root";
$db_password = “root";
$conn = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_username,$db_password) or die("Could not connect to Server" .mysql_error());

mysql_select_db($db_name) or die("Could not connect to Database" .mysql_error());
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Edit :
<form:>
get code from databse and display at values of input boxes
</form>
Display :
<table>
<?php
$query="iselect * from users ";
$result = Mysql_query($query);
While($get = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
?>
<tr><td><?php echo $get[‘name’]?></td></tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
Same program using two tire architecture
At a .tpl file
At the PHP file :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN"
<?php
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
require 'libs/Smarty.class.php';
<head>
include "includes/functions.php";
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
$smarty = new Smarty;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>{$title}</title>
$smarty->assign("title",“Get data from Database");
$smarty->assign("keywords",get data, database");
<meta name="keywords" content="{$keywords}" />
$smarty->assign("description",“Get data from database process ")
<meta name="description" content="{$description}" />
$query= “select * from users “;
<<h1 class="title“>Smarty !</h1>
$result = Mysql_query(“$query”);”
$getdata= mysql_fetch_array($result);
<ul class="list" >
$smarty->assign("data",$data);
$smarty->display(‘userss.tpl');
{section name=rows loop=$data}
{$data[rows]}
{/section}
?>
</dody>
</html>
Why framework?
Developing an application from scratch is easy than maintaining it . So after the
development the good thing is that its easy to maintain and add more features.
Its easy to handle the complex problems easily.

1. Clean urls ( SEO friendly urls )
2. We can standardization!
3 .Security
4. Extensibility
5. Fast Loading
6. Reusable of code
7. increase flexibility
MVC Framework
-> MVC is a method of separating the user interface of an application from its Domain Logic.
-> MVC stands for Model, View, and Controller. It aims to separate your app in these 3
components:
Model:
● help you retrieve, insert, and update information in your database.
View:
● the information that is being presented to a user.
Controller:
● an intermediary between the Model, the View
● any other resources needed to process the HTTP request and generate a web
page
Benefits of using MVC
■ Easier to Debug as we have multiple levels properly written in the application.
Substitutable user interface :
User interface components:
Multiple simultaneous views of the same model
Synchronized views
Easier user interface changes
Easier testing
■ Development of the application becomes fast.
■ Easy for multiple developers to collaborate and work together.
Drawbacks of using MVC
It is hard to understand the MVC architecture.

Must have strict rules on methods.
MVC
Top 10 frameworks
• CodeIgniter
• Yii
• CakePHP
• Zend
• Symfony
• PHPDevShell
• Prado
• Akelos
• Zoop
• QPHP
Comparison of frameworks
• MVC: Indicates whether the framework comes with inbuilt support for a Model-View-Controller setup.
• Multiple DB's: Indicates whether the framework supports multiple databases without having to change
anything.
• ORM: Indicates whether the framework supports an object-record mapper, usually an implementation of
ActiveRecord.
• DB Objects: Indicates whether the framework includes other database objects, like a TableGateWay.
• Templates: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt template engine.
• Caching: Indicates whether the framework includes a caching object or some way other way of caching.
• Validation: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt validation or filtering component.
• Ajax: Indicates whether the framework comes with inbuilt support for Ajax.
• Auth Module: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt module for handling user authentication.
• Modules: Indicates whether the framework has other modules, like an RSS feed parser, PDF module or
anything else (useful).
• EDP: Event Driven Programming.New!

■ CodeIgniter Features
Configure the file:
system/application/config/
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/';
$config['index_page'] = '';
Default Settings :
$config['charset'] = “UTF-8”;
$config['cache_path'] = '';
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_-';
$config['log_date_format'] = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
$config['global_xss_filtering'] = TRUE;
To configure the databse:
application\config\database.php
$db['default']['hostname'] = “”; // Host Name

$db['default']['username'] = “”; // User Name
$db['default']['password'] = “”; // Password
$db['default']['database'] = “”; // Database Name
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = “”; // Databse driver.
CodeIgniter URLs
example.com/index.php/news/article/my_article
news – Controller
article – class function
my_article - any additional segments
If we add the below contents at .htaccess

file
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
Then URLs will change it into.
example.com/news/article/my_article
Controller
<?php
class Upload extends Controller {
function Upload() {
parent::Controller();
/* $this->load->helper('form');*/
}
function index() {
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in') != TRUE)
{
redirect(base_url().'user/login');
}
else
{
//echo $this->session->userdata('name');
$data['login']=$this->session->userdata('name') ;
$this->load->database();
$data['title']="Welcome to CodeIgniter Upload Images";
$this->load->view('header',$data);
$this->load->view('upload_form');
$this->load->view('footer');
}
function _createThumbnail($fileName) {
$config['image_library'] = 'gd2';
$config['source_image'] = 'uploads/' . $fileName;
$config['create_thumb'] = TRUE;
$config['maintain_ratio'] = TRUE;
$config['width'] = 75;
$config['height'] = 75;
$this->load->library('image_lib', $config);
if(!$this->image_lib->resize()) echo $this->image_lib->display_errors();
}
function list_images() {
$this->load->library('pagination');
$config['total_rows'] = $this->db->count_all('code_image');
$config['per_page'] = '3';
$config['full_tag_open'] = '<p>';
$config['full_tag_close'] = '</p>';
$config['base_url'] = base_url().'upload/list_images/';
$this->pagination->initialize($config);
//echo base_url();
$this->load->model('code_image');
$data['images'] = $this->code_image->get_images($config['per_page'],$this->uri->segment(3));
// This gives us anchor() - see the view at the end
$data1['login']=$this->session->userdata('name') ;
$data1['title']="List of images in the Website";

$this->load->view('header',$data1);
$this->load->helper('url');
$this->load->view('list_images', $data);
}
function view_image($image_id)
{
$this->load->model('code_image');
$data['image'] = $this->code_image->get_image($image_id);
$data1['login']=$this->session->userdata('name') ;
$data1['title']="List of images in the Website";
$this->load->view('header',$data1);
$this->load->view('view_image', $data);
}
}
Model
<?php
class Code_image extends Model {
function get_images($num, $offset) {
$query = $this->db->get('code_image', $num, $offset);

//$query = $this->db->get('code_image');
foreach ($query->result_array() as $row)
{
$result[] = $row;
}
return $result;
}
function get_image($image_id) {
$query = $this->db->where('image_id', $image_id)->get('code_image');
$result = $query->row_array();
return $result;
}
}
?>
Views
<table width="900" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content" >
<tr><td><p>List Out Photos </p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="400">
<table align="center">
<?php foreach ($images as $image): ?>
<tr><td colspan="2" style=" border-top:1px solid #669966;"> </td></tr>
<tr >
<td width="200"><img alt="Your Image" src="<?= base_url() . 'uploads/' . $image['image_thumb'];?>" /></td>
<td width="200"><?=anchor( base_url().'upload/view_image/'.$image['image_id'], 'View')?></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style=" border-bottom:1px solid #669966;"> </td></tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<tr><td colspan="2" style=" border-bottom:1px solid #669966;" align="right">
<?php echo $this->pagination->create_links(); ?>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Particular Image
<table width="900" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content" >
<tr><td><p>View Image </p></td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="400">
<table align="center">
<tr><td colspan="2" style=" border-top:1px solid #669966;"> </td></tr>
<tr >
<td width="400"><img alt="Your Image" src="<?= base_url() . 'uploads/' . $image['image_name'];?>" /></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style=" border-bottom:1px solid #669966;"> </td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Upload a image
<table width="900" height="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content" >
<tr><td colspan="3" align="left"><h2>Upload an Image </h2></td></tr>

<?php echo form_open_multipart(base_url().'upload/doUpload'); ?>
<tr valign="top"><td colspan="3" align="center">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0">
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Image Name: </td>
<td><input type="file" name="userfile" /></td>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="image" src="<?=base_url()?>images/upload.png" value="Login" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<?php echo form_close(); ?>

</table>
List of images :
URL : http://localhost/codeigniter/upload/list_images
Particular Image
URL : http://localhost/codeigniter/upload/view_image/1
Upload an image
Upload success page
References
■ PHP framework comparison benchmarks
■ http://avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks
■ Why Should we use a PHP Framework?
■ http://www.ashesh.com.np/why-should-we-use-a-php-framework/
■ CakePHP official site
■ http://cakephp.org/
■ CodeIgniter Site
■ http://codeigniter.com
■ PHP frameworks lists
■ http://www.phpframeworks.com/
■ http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/model_view_controller

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1. Connect to the database server

1. Tell the framework to fetch the data

$conn = mysql_connect($db_host,$db_username,$db_password) or die("Could not connect to Server" .mysql_error());

At the PHP file :

Its easy to handle the complex problems easily.

Drawbacks of using MVC

It is hard to understand the MVC architecture.

• Templates: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt template engine.

• EDP: Event Driven Programming.New!

To configure the databse:

$db['default']['hostname'] = “”; // Host Name

If we add the below contents at .htaccess

Then URLs will change it into.

class Upload extends Controller {

// This gives us anchor() - see the view at the end

$data1['title']="List of images in the Website";

$query = $this->db->get('code_image', $num, $offset);

<table width="900" height="200" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="content" >

<tr><td colspan="3" align="left"><h2>Upload an Image </h2></td></tr>

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0">

<?php echo form_close(); ?>

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