Lesson 2 - E-shop in PHP - The concept of article controllers
In the previous lesson, E-shop in PHP - Directory structure, we set up the directory structure and the database. In today's tutorial, we're going to implement a namespace-aware autoloader and introduce the genius concept of article controllers. This lesson is extra long, but it's mostly just about modifying existing code so I found it pointless to split in into more paid articles.
Let's start filling our folders with modified files. We'll get to the folder, file, and changes in said files list soon. All the source codes in this article are under the ICT.social premium license and cannot be distributed. I won't add a license annotation to save space in the article.
.htaccess
We already know that the index.php file goes in the public folder. With that in mind, we'll put an .htaccess file with the following contents in the root folder as well (which will redirect every request to the public folder):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ public/ [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public/ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 </IfModule>
public
First of all, we'll start by filling the public folder, which a browser treats as
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In this tutorial, we'll prepare the .htaccess file and the autoloader, add code to the IctSocial vendor, and introduce the concept of article controllers.
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