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- To maintain a consistent design as I write both .NET and PHP code
- As a learning tool to introduce PHP developers to the .NET flavored MVC paradigm
- As a learning tool to introduce ASP.NET developers to PHP syntax in a familiar way
- I am using a VisualStudio extension called PHPTools (http://www.devsense.com/products/php-tools) since it makes PHP development in VisualStudio almost trivial; however, you don't have you use it if you don't want to. If you download the source, simply ignore the .sln, .suo, .phpproj, and .phpproj.user files and you'll be fine.
In this example, we are pulling data from a repository and converting it to a view model in our controller, which then gets passed to our view.
require_once('bin/System.php');
class MovieViewModel
{
public $Id = 0;
public $Title = "";
public $Rating = '';
public $ReleaseDate = '';
public function __construct($id, $title, $rating, $releaseDate)
{
$this->Id = $id;
$this->Title = $title;
$this->Rating = $rating;
$this->ReleaseDate = $releaseDate;
}
}
Here we are creating a view model based on data retrieved from our repository. To view the repository code, navigate to /repositories/MovieRepository.php
require_once('/repositories/MovieRepository.php');
require_once('/models/MovieViewModel.php');
class HomeController
{
public $MovieRepo;
public function __construct()
{
$this->MovieRepo = new MovieRepository(); // create an instance of our repo
}
public function Index()
{
$movies = $this->MovieRepo->GetMovies(); // get data from our repo
// do some transformations and populate our view model
foreach ($movies as $movie)
{
$model[] = new MovieViewModel(
$movie->Id,
$movie->Title,
$movie->IsRRated ? 'R' : 'PG',
$movie->ReleaseDate->format('F jS, Y')
);
}
View::Render('views/home/index.php', null, $model); // call our view and send the model
}
}
The model gets passed to the view and we are using PHP's HEREDOC syntax to display the values in HTML.
<ul class="list-group">
<?php
foreach($Model as $movie)
{
echo <<<HTML
<li class="list-group-item">
<strong>{$movie->Title}</strong> ({$movie->Rating}) - {$movie->ReleaseDate}
</li>
HTML;
}
?>
</ul>
Here it is! And, it looks good thanks to bootstrap!
... more examples coming soon