{"id":1705,"date":"2025-01-09T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/200oksolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:44:05","slug":"building-custom-mvc-framework-core-php-architecture-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.200oksolutions.com\/blog\/building-custom-mvc-framework-core-php-architecture-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Custom MVC Framework from Scratch with Core PHP: Architecture and BestPractices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Understanding MVC Architecture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern separates application logic into three distinct components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Model<\/strong>: Handles data logic and interactions with the database<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>View<\/strong>: Manages the presentation layer and user interface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Controller<\/strong>: Processes user input and coordinates between Model and View<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Project Structure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our framework will follow this directory structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>project\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>App<ul><li>Controllers\/<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Models\/<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Views\/<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Config\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Core<ul><li>Router.php<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Controller.php<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Model.php<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>View.php<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Database.php<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public\/<ul><li>index.php<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>css\/<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>js\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>.htaccess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Core Components Implementation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Router Class<\/strong><br>The Router will handle URL routing and dispatch requests to appropriate controllers:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>class Router { private $routes = &#91;];\npublic function addRoute($method, $path, $handler) {\n$this-&gt;routes&#91;] = &#91; 'method' =&gt; $method, 'path' =&gt; $path, 'handler' =&gt; $handler\n];\n}\n\n\npublic function dispatch($requestMethod, $requestUri) { foreach ($this-&gt;routes as $route) {\nif ($route&#91;'method'] === $requestMethod CC $this-&gt;matchPath($route&#91;'path'],\n$requestUri)) {\nreturn call_user_func($route&#91;'handler']);\n}\n}\nthrow new Exception('Route not found');\n}\n\n\nprivate function matchPath($routePath, $requestUri) {\n$routeRegex = preg_replace('\/\\{(\\w+)\\}\/', '(?P&lt;$1&gt;&#91;^\/]+)', $routePath);\n$routeRegex = \"#^\" . $routeRegex . \"$#\";\nreturn preg_match($routeRegex, $requestUri, $matches);\n}\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Base Controller Class<\/strong><br>The Controller class serves as the foundation for all controllers:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>abstract class Controller { protected $view; protected $model;\n\npublic function  construct() {\n$this-&gt;view = new View();\n}\n\n\nprotected function loadModel($modelName) {\n$modelClass = $modelName . 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