Comments on: Model View Controller Explained

By: Dane Calderon

Dane Calderon — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Great article, Tom! Thanks for dumbing this down for ‘the rest of us’ and understanding that not all of us have a masters in computer science!

I’ve just made the jump into MVC with CI, and wow! It seems so crazy
complicated until you wrap your head around it, and then it is crazy
simple. I’m loving this framework. What you really have to do to get
this is to really look at the classes in the model and controller
folders (YouTube has some great tutorials as well for those of us who
are too lazy to read, and oh by the way, if you didn’t ‘get’ OOP before, learning the MVC basics will completely clarify that for you!). Between this framework and the javascript libraries, I’m looking like a pro! This is probably the most dramatic improvement I’ve experienced in my programming in the span of 2 or 3 days.

By: CodeMonkey

CodeMonkey — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:28:00 +0000

Not to be nit picky but in example 4 couldn’t you pass in the type and have a single line per var with an overloaded function for the new gui?

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:36:00 +0000

Very clear differentiation for the Model, View, and Controller.
Perhaps, a small program example (.zip) in your blog may make your explanations perfect

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:02:00 +0000

Woah, wacky #ifdef intendation alert!

By: Snehal Masne

Snehal Masne — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:56:00 +0000

Thank you so much for providing such a good explanation for MVC.. clarified many doubts

By: Hsharif2

Hsharif2 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:05:00 +0000

Awesome – great explanation, thanks. Appreciate the benefits write up – helps understand the competitive edge of using MVC

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:57:00 +0000

One of the better high level explanations I’ve seen. Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:54:00 +0000

I have never gotten MVC before now, great article, thanks much for the help!

By: Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:18:00 +0000

I still don’t get it 100%, but this helped me slightly understand it more. Thankyou!

By: I finally understand Model View Controller (MVC) - Jeremy Knight

I finally understand Model View Controller (MVC) - Jeremy Knight — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:02:48 +0000

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