Digging MVC

Right now I’m getting into learning some MVC development techniques. I got turned onto MVC by an exciting new project in the ecommerce realm called Magento (no not as in mag-neto,  but ma-gento). I thought it was mag-neto at first and tried typing that into the address bar to get to their site, but was redirected – looks like I’m not the only one that is slightly dislexic…

 Anyway, they’ve got a neat new shopping cart developed (right now in beta) in php5 and built off the Zend Framework. So, I started looking at how the implementation was structured and found that it didn’t fit the traditional mold. First, there was only one index file and a .htaccess file with some code I had never used or seen before. So, I dug a little further and found that the structure is based upon the Zend Framework and MVC archetecture / approach.

If I were a betting person and really, I do suck at gambling or playing cards - i’d say that this type of approach, especially as we get into Web 2.0 a little further will be the certain path that we must take as developers. I’ve been all over the Zend site and they are doing some amazing things with Ajax and web services.. Check out some of the feed articles on this blog from the zend site. Especially this one.

 Charles