Why Not To Make an MVC Framework

As I think about what I’m hoping to convey with this post, I’d like to make two points very clear.  First, I am sick right now and very possibly am loopy beyond compare.  Why I decided to write a blog post in this condition is not a question I could ever answer.  Secondly, I have nothing against MVC beyond its status as an apparent fad in the web development industry.  It is a good design pattern that helps many people follow some great coding practices.  With that out of the way, lets get into the reason for the post.

The other day I was preparing to make a presentation on N2F to my local PHP Meetup group.  I remembered that a good many of the other members in the group were proponents of MVC, and figured that there would be no harm in creating a simple MVC extension for N2F that would show how flexible we made our framework.  Quite simply, this was the worst idea I’ve had in quite some time, but at least I got a bit of a chuckle out of the whole process.

I would never claim to be any kind of an expert on MVC.  I know the basic concepts, and attempted to build my extension based on that understanding.  The following file will give you everything I did to make N2F an MVC-ish framework.  The file mvc.ext.php is the extension which overwrites two system events to allow the change in structure.  The rest should be fairly self-explanatory, but should never be used on any kind of server…ever.  Enjoy!

 

Download N2F-MVC.rar

 

- Andy