Package Proposal: MVCnPHP

Per a thead from a few months ago on the feasibility of including design patterns in PEAR, I am offering up the one example that I feel makes sense...a PHP implementation of the MVC design pattern I call MVCnPHP. This package is purely a framework that can be used in applications to make them more maintainable and more reusable. The MVC design pattern does require a slight shift in thought on how you develop PHP applications with it but I argue the benefits are real. While this is a framework, it is useless without seeing it in action so, to that end, I have built a demo that is included. I consider this code to be a release candidate leaving room for a few tweaks. For those who are unaware of the MVC design pattern please see the following: http://ootips.org/mvc-pattern.html http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/11/1/8/ http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/article/articleview/19/1/1/ What I have does not aim to be a Struts compatible implementation (just an FYI for any Java developers out there). Here are links you all will find pertinent: PHPDoc Documentation: http://project.geeklog.net/~tony/MVCnPHP-1.0rc1/docs/ CVS Viewer: http://cvs.geeklog.net/chora/cvs.php/MVCnPHP Demonstration of a simple Contact Manager application using MVCnPHP: http://project.geeklog.net/~tony/MVCnPHP-1.0rc1/contactmanager/ Tarball of source code: http://project.geeklog.net/~tony/MVCnPHP-1.0rc1.tar.gz Zip of source code: http://project.geeklog.net/~tony/MVCnPHP-1.0rc1.zip --

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