CHAPTER 8

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Building the Back End: Part 1

So far in the app development process, most of the efforts have been targeted at the front end of the site. In this chapter, you’ll be building the back-end scripts that will power the front end.

Rolling Your Own Simple MVC Framework

Before you can build the app, your first task is to build a framework for it. As we determined previously, a Model-View Controller (MVC) framework will be the best option in this particular build.

In this section, you’ll build an MVC framework from scratch. This is a complex task, so we’ve built it across two chapters. In this first chapter you’ll set up the framework for the ...

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