Chapter 33. Using Application Frameworks

In this short chapter, you learn, including the following:

What an application framework is and how it can help you

The basics of the model-view-controller pattern of software architecture

Considering and installing some popular PHP application frameworks

This book has taught you the basics of creating dynamic functionality within a website, be it individual scripts used to increase functionality or display dynamic data or a series of scripts hooked together in some consistent fashion to produce a web-based application. When you are ready to move to larger projects, in which you are likely to want to use functionality that others most certainly have used in their projects but you have neither the ...

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