Hi guys!

I’m nemetral, CI addict willing to share the basics of MVC with all the newcomers joining the CI community!

The 3-part tutorial is available at:
Part 1 : http://nemetral.net/2008/07/31/a-gentle-introduction-to-mvc-part-1/
Part 2 : http://nemetral.net/2008/08/06/a-gentle-introduction-to-mvc-part-2/
Part 3 : http://nemetral.net/2008/08/13/a-gentle-introduction-to-mvc-part-3/

Go check it out and leave comments to discuss some points should you have any remark or question related to MVC! When it reaches the perfect stage, why not making a wiki page out of it?

Cheers
nemetral

That’s a coincidence, i was reading your “persuit of APIness” when i saw this post.

Nice work.

I hope you enjoyed this series of posts as well!

The idea of the blog is to explain webdev concepts and patterns, and in a second time I’ll move on to substantial CI examples.

There’s more to come..

I’ll keep an eye out for it, perhaps your site has one of these rss thingys i could subscribe too….

Haha exactly: the feed is burnt over there at http://feeds.feedburner.com/nemetral

Enjoy!

Just some thoughts on clarity…

What’s Business Logic, PHP Logic, what’s the difference?
Explain view, controller, which should go where. (Review definition of MVC).

Doesn’t really go into why it’s more maintainable although that should be blindingly obvious.

Good Luck

@Aea

Thanks a lot for your comments.

Part 1 of the tutorial is not yet about MVC: MVC will be explained in part 2 and the basis of a MVC framework will be shown in part 3 (kind of a super light CodeIgniter to really understand how the different parts work).

But you’re right I’ll define Business Logic & PHP Logic.

Thanks!

hey nice tutorial, nice work
thanks for sharing

Nice article for beginners but one thing bothers me and that is your use of the for loop to display the results

This snippet is better

The bad things about your snippet is the performance hit adding the count function to the second part of the for statement because then it is a part of the loop and you add variables instead of using the data that is present.

Using the foreach loop naming of the variables it’s also more clear once you need to get multiple fields

What xwero is saying is absolutely the better method to use.

Thanks for all your comments! I have modified some parts of the post.

Stay tuned for the other two posts!
nemetral