[Esoterith]

Most current popular MVCs do have many features that could and may suit you though its full of bloat content that you just simply don't need. In this general tutorial I'll be walking you through making a simple Model View Controller in PHP. I'll be writing this tutorial for Apache2 with AllowRewrite set to All for website directory.

By default on ubuntu/debain servers you'll need to go to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and ctrl+w search "/var/www" and set AllowRewrite from None to All

How this MVC will work is using an auto-loader function to combine all the files and make them runnable inside index.php

To start off we'll need to make the .htaccess file, How this works it takes everything after / and returns it as a GET request.

.htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

Now if you were to put in the index.php (Do not test this on a production server. Vulnerable to XSS Reflected.)

temp index.php

Code:

<?php
echo $_GET['url'];
?>

It will echo out what ever you put after domain.tld/blehblehkekbleh
Output: blehblehkekbleh

For this part we'll need to make a few directories even if they're left black in this section.
You'll need: class, controllers, views, and inc.

To finish off this tutorial we'll do the index, auto loader and route page so you can see progress.

index.php

Code:

<?php
 require_once "./inc/autoload.php";
 require_once "./inc/route.php";
?>

It's requiring the auto-loader which will include all classes/controllers/etc.
The route is to get the correct page.

/inc/route.php

Code:

<?php
 Route::set('index.php', function() {
   echo "Hello world.";
 });
?>

Now if you were to go to domain.tld you'd see "Hello world."
To add a new route you'd simply make another Route::Set

Code:

 Route::set('example', function() {
   echo "Hello world. 2";
 });

If you were to go to domain.tld/example you'd see "Hello world. 2"

The auto-loader use spl_autoload_register function to find all the classes, and is self explanatory. If you need help you can look at the documentation on PHP.net

/inc/autoload.php

Code:

<?php

function autoLoaderInclude($includeName){
   if(file_exists(strtolower('./class/'.$includeName.'.class.php'))) {
     $pathClass = strtolower('./class/'.$includeName.'.class.php');
     require_once($pathClass);
   }
   if(file_exists(strtolower('./controllers/'.$includeName.'.php'))) {
     $pathController = strtolower('./controllers/'.$includeName.'.php');
     require_once($pathController);
   }
}


spl_autoload_register('autoLoaderInclude');

?>

With that it will look for all controllers and classes.

/class/route.class.php

Code:

<?php

  class Route {

    public static $validRoutes = array();

    public static function set($route, $function) {

      self::$validRoutes[] = $route;

      if($_GET['url'] == $route) {
        $function->__invoke();
      } else {
        echo "Route not found";
      }


    }

  }

?>

If you have any questions or need any help feel free to reply. I will continue to make more sections as I have time.