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Ben Youngblood:
MVC Is Not Enough
Sep 04, 2013 @ 14:12:25

Ben Youngblood has a new post to his site suggesting that MVC is not enough to build good, robust applications (PHP or not) just because a good portion of the frameworks implement it.

With few exceptions, any software engineer worth his/her salt have at least heard of the model-view-controller pattern. It’s been around since it was introduced to Smalltalk in the late 1970s and has been a staple pattern in object-oriented languages for as many years. Nearly all the leading PHP frameworks include some form of MVC implementation. With so many frameworks and developers espousing its use, you would think it’s the best pattern for building your application. And you would be wrong.

He's not suggesting abandoning MVC altogether for something else. He just wants a reexamination of how it's being used and how to improve the structure of the applications using it. One option is to adhere more to the SOLID principles, avoiding things like domain logic in controllers and "fat" models with too much logic.

Chiefly, MVC is one part of your application, not your application. If you find that you are building your domain logic inside models, views, or controllers, then you are abusing MVC. No substantive application can, or should, be made to fit inside MVC.
tagged: mvc opinion solid principles improvement

Link: http://blog.bjyoungblood.com/2013/08/21/mvc-is-not-enough


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