MVC - Application development

[knowj]

I have been searching for a while for decent resources on Application development within the MVC preferably explained using php.

There are a lot of articles online but I am looking more for application structure and best practice running through where to place each part of a system such as core classes (db access, paging, image manipulation etc... ) through to getting every part of the system to interact with each other in a secure environment.

Anyone know of any decent books or articles?

thanks in advance.

[slick101]

cakePHP ? Smarty template engine ?

[NogDog]

I can't suggest any specific resource in terms of book or web articles, though I'm sure there must be hundreds. You could certainly look into downloading and digging into one (or more) of the many MVC frameworks out there and see how they do it. (I've used CodeIgniter on a number of projects and have found its documentation to be very good.)

[knowj]

Codeigniter is an amazing implementation of a framework but i find it to be less scalable than I would wish on the type of projects I am working on.

I am actually looking into the zend framework because if anyone knows how to build a framework on php they do. The problem I am finding is that there is no reliable information on how to structure systems (basic application development) aimed at being reliable, secure, stable and performance.

I have been delving into smarty template engine over the past few months and find it to be substantial and defiantly a library that I would use in future projects.

I'm supprised at the lack of books available for online application development all php related books seem to be aimed at the basic php language and a few libraries and at most have a couple of paragraphs on the MVC.

[Kudose]

knowj;10921489 wrote:

I'm supprised at the lack of books available for online application development all php related books seem to be aimed at the basic php language and a few libraries and at most have a couple of paragraphs on the MVC.

Probably because most of the best books were written before PHP was popular.

If you want good application design books, you'll need to be able to read code concepts from languages other than PHP, namely Java and C++.

An example is: Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the "Gang of Four"

PHP5 Objects Patterns and Practice published by Apress may be up your alley.

[NogDog]

You also might want to look for articles/books on n-tier application design, as MVC is essentially one interpretation/implementation of that concept.