Статьи

Frameworks for PHP are so omnipresent these days, chances are you’ve already tried out at least a few of them.

Setup of a directory structure, showing you how to set everything in place, including Qcodo.

Let’s see what has to be done to help the framework find its way around the new environment.

MVC and SEO for Qcodo

A good front controller is your all-round index.php with Swiss pocket knife ambitions, that knows how to treat any request that you throw at it, and at the same time, provides all sorts of hooks to escape from structure, gain control and execute some custom logic when needed.

In this chapter, we will go into lazy loading, a great feature that came with PHP5. After learning what it exactly is and how it can benefit our setup, we’ll take a look at how Qcodo uses lazy loading itself, and how we can extend that functionality to fit our needs.

Developing our first controller, or rather our first action.

Last night I quickly threw together the articles I’ve written so far, and assembled a first draft of what we’re working on.

Adding SEO to our framework isn’t the hardest thing to achieve. Mostly it will depend on your server environment, which usually comes with a URL rewriting module by default.

This article will focus on how to implement SEO for Apache using mod_rewrite. People on IIS should Google for isapi_rewrite. Meanwhile, I’m working on a solid approach through PHP. Allthough PHP doesn’t deliver the same beautiful URL’s since the index.php is stuck inside the link, it is still better than nothing.

A custom 404 page is handy, since your visitors don’t see the regular 404 error provided by default through the browser.

The release incorporates everything that I’ve been showcasing, and should offer you a plug-and-play environment based on MVC, working through a front controller with search engine friendly URLs.