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.

You will:

Build PHP-based web applications using the model view controller (MVC) architecture
Write your first bit of framework code
Compare the code you write with how the popular frameworks do the same kinds of things Create various aspects of applications, engines, and other frameworks
Wrap up with a sample case study application

Autorentext
Christopher Pitt is an experienced PHP and JavaScript/CSS web developer and writer, working at SilverStripe. He usually works on application architecture, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers or robots. He is also the author of several web development books and is a contributor on various open source projects such as AdonisJs and Masonite.

Inhalt
1: Ways to Use PHP2: Writing Our First Bit of Code3: Building a Router4: Building a Template Engine5: Building a Validator6: Building a Database Library7: Building an Object-Relational Mapper Library8: Building a Dependency Injection Container9: Testing Our Framework10: Config, Cache, Sessions, Filesystems11: Queues, Logging, Emails12: Publishing Your CodeAfterword: Wrapping Up