PHP MVC Blog System

A simple blog application built using a custom PHP MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework.
This project is beginner-friendly and ideal for learning PHP OOP, routing, authentication, and CRUD operations.

🚀 Features

• ✅ Custom MVC framework (no external dependencies)
• ✅ User registration and login
• ✅ Post CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• ✅ Session-based authentication
• ✅ MySQL database integration
• ✅ Clean file structure for easy understanding

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📁 Project Structure

project/
├── assets/ # For css/js/images
│ └── css
│   └── style.css
│ └── js
│ └── images
│
├── config/ # Database config
│ └── database.php
│
├── controllers/ # Controller classes
│ ├── AuthController.php
│ └── PostController.php
│
├── core/ # Core framework (MVC base)
│ ├── App.php
│ ├── Controller.php
│ └── Model.php
│
├── models/ # Model classes
│ ├── User.php
│ └── Post.php
│
├── views/ # View files (HTML/PHP)
│ ├── auth/
│ ├── post/
│ └── layouts/
│
└── index.php # Entry point

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🧑‍💻 Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• MySQL or MariaDB
• Apache or Nginx

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/rawbinn/basic-mvc-structure-using-php.git
cd basic-mvc-structure-using-php

2. Create the database and tables You can find sql in migrations directory

3. Configure database connection

Edit config/database.php:

    <?php
    return [
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => '', // set your DB password
        'database' => 'your_database_name'
    ];

4. Run the app Place the project in your web server’s root directory (e.g., htdocs for XAMPP) Start Apache/MySQL

Visit: http://localhost/basic-mvc-structure-using-php/index.php

🧪 Demo Routes Feature URL

Home	/index.php
Register	/index.php?url=auth/register
Login	/index.php?url=auth/login
Post List	/index.php?url=post/index
Create Post	/index.php?url=post/create
Edit Post /index.php?url=post/edit/1