1. MVC – Model View Controller
MIS 3502
Jeremy Shafer
Department of MIS
Fox School of Business
Temple University

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5. Things that make me think of MVC

6. The MVC pattern
The Controller: Act like a traffic cop… receive user input and decide what to do.

7. The MVC pattern
The Model: talk to the database.

8. The MVC pattern
The View: specifies what the user can see.

9. The MVC pattern
SANITY CHECK! – In which of the above would you expect to see code that uses PDO syntax?

10. The MVC pattern
SANITY CHECK! – In which of the above would you expect to see a lot of HTML?

11. The MVC pattern
SANITY CHECK! – In which of the above would you expect to see a lot of if / else statements?

13. What about functions?

14. function function_name([parameter_list]) {
// statements that are executed by the function
return $some_result; }

21. Build a request response (with include)
Here’s a good rule of thumb.
Use include and exit within an application folder.
Use header and exit to bounce the user from one application folder to another.
Build a request response (with include)
Redirect a request (with header)
So… how do I know when to do one, or the other???

22. Let’s look at an example