Development - Workflow
General ¶
The following diagram shows the static structure of a ApPHP Framework application:
Typical Workflow ¶
This diagram shows a typical workflow of a ApPHP Framework application when it handls a user request:
- Site visitor makes a request with the URL, ex.: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?url=pages/view&id=1 and the Web server handles the request by executing the bootstrap script index.php.
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The bootstrap script creates an Application instance and runs it:
<?php ... A::init($config)->run();
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The application receives a user request information from the framework component named
CRequest. -
The application determines the requested controller and action. For this example, the controller
is
pages, which refers to thePagesControllerclass; and the action isview, whose actual meaning is determined by the controller. -
The application creates an instance of the requested controller to handle the user request.
The controller determines that the action show refers to a method named
viewActionin the controller class. - The action reads a Pages model record whose ID is 1 from the database.
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The action renders a view named
viewwith the Pages model. - The view reads and displays the variables passed from controller.
- The view may execute widgets.
- The action completes the view rendering and displays the result to the user using defined templates or layouts.