please advice: doing some thinking about mvc / templating system

byru · 11-27-2008, 04:49 AM

Hi again , this is my first post so I hope this question is in the right place, if it's not please mods move it to the right place :) ..

as a web developer, I seem to evolve on a path which goes like this ..

1. Write HTML Pages and add PHP tags into them
2. Realize on a large scale, this is going to be hard to maintain

3. Learn about MVC and start to think it's cool

4. Trying smarty templating engine ..

Basically, the way of templating engine works like this ( in my understanding ) :
a) do code in PHP
b) Call smarty and fill in the variables in a template
c) Send the output

please Correct me if I'm wrong ..

but then again, I think step a and b already use a lot of processing time .. if I have much bigger application I don't know how much process and took time..

I need advice, I'm doing some project with team in it at office and it seems to be large application. I need advice on method how am I gonna do it ? some say MVC is bad, some say it's not ..

Bear in mind, I'm newbie

.. All I can do is procedural coding, a little bit of OOP ...

thanks in advance

zxt3st · 11-28-2008, 08:38 AM

Well, if its a big project you are doing. I recommend to use OO rather than the old-fashioned way in coding php projects.

With the templates, i have not even tried template system like smarty, phptal, etc but try to check their features and tutorials and have a glance on them, for sure they are great/useful. And if you can check the article section there is a PHPTal Tutorial there.

Anilkumar · 02-06-2009, 05:32 AM

Hi,

can anyone help me for this issue?

I am going to implement a application in the smarty, with the MVC architecture , i previously worked on CakePHP, but i am very new to smarty , so please help me for this issue, give some example of structure of the coding.

Thanks in Advance,

Anil Kumar

Wildhoney · 02-06-2009, 02:35 PM

You'll probably get more of a response if you posted a new thread, Anil

Don't be shy!