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some questions about project structure

My purpose is to create a "classified adverts" site with phalcon.

I'm following the "Leaning Phalcon PHP" ebook and has this directory structure:

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├── composer.json
├── composer.lock
├── config
│   ├── config.php
│   ├── loader.php
│   ├── routing.php
│   └── services.php
├── docs
│   └── learning_phalcon.sql
├── learning_phalcon.dev
├── modules
│   ├── Api
│   │   ├── Config
│   │   │   ├── config.php
│   │   │   ├── routing.php
│   │   │   └── services.php
│   │   ├── Controllers
│   │   │   ├── BaseController.php
│   │   │   └── IndexController.php
│   │   └── Module.php
│   ├── Backoffice
│   │   ├── Config
│   │   │   ├── config.php
│   │   │   ├── routing.php
│   │   │   └── services.php
│   │   ├── Controllers
│   │   │   ├── ArticleController.php
│   │   │   ├── BaseController.php
│   │   │   └── IndexController.php
│   │   ├── Module.php
│   │   └── Views
│   │       └── Default
│   │           ├── article
│   │           │   └── list.volt
│   │           ├── index
│   │           │   └── index.volt
│   │           └── layout.volt
│   ├── Bootstrap.php
│   ├── Core
│   │   ├── Config
│   │   │   ├── config.php
│   │   │   ├── routing.php
│   │   │   └── services.php
│   │   ├── Controllers
│   │   │   ├── BaseController.php
│   │   │   └── IndexController.php
│   │   ├── Managers
│   │   │   ├── ArticleManager.php
│   │   │   └── BaseManager.php
│   │   ├── Models
│   │   │   ├── Article.php
│   │   │   └── Base.php
│   │   └── Module.php
│   └── Frontend
│       ├── Config
│       │   ├── config.php
│       │   ├── routing.php
│       │   └── services.php
│       ├── Controllers
│       │   ├── ArticleController.php
│       │   ├── BaseController.php
│       │   └── IndexController.php
│       ├── Module.php
│       └── Views
│           └── Default
│               ├── article
│               │   └── list.volt
│               ├── index
│               │   └── index.volt
│               └── layout.volt
└── public
    ├── assets
    │   └── default
    │       ├── css
    │       │   ├── lp.backoffice.css
    │       │   └── lp.css
    │       └── js
    │           └── lp.js
    └── index.php

First of all, the code samples in the book don't work. Also I've followed the book carefully and didn't make it work. Simply I can't.

First question: ¿What are the sections core, frontend, api and backoffice for? (each one)

Second question: the author user a file Bootstrap.php in the "modules" folder. Why? Is better? I never could put that to work, I have to use public/index.php or nothing. It always fails when calling $application->handle()->getContent();

Third question: where can I found a good tutorial using some HMVC structure like that in the book? Or good tutorials in general.



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Hi,

What are the sections core, frontend, api and backoffice for? (each one):

  • Core : contains base controllers / services etc. The idea is that you put your base controller there, and EACH AND EVERYONE ( that you want ofc ) will extend this core/base controller. So you can attach a "beforeRoute" listener to all your controllers at once
  • frontend is a module, for example: www.example.com/frontend/index/index, so in this case ( base on your routes ) it will call index controller in frontend module
  • backoffice same as frontend
  • api is also a module, me personally i use it only for ajax requets. So if i have "loadTable" method called from frontend i will make my ajax:
$.ajax("/api/frontend/loadTable")

and i will have loadTableAction in api/FrontendConntroller.php

Second question: the author user a file Bootstrap.php in the "modules" folder. Why? Is better? I never could put that to work, I have to use public/index.php or nothing. It always fails when calling $application->handle()->getContent(); :

I can't really explain it ( since i dont know it perfectly myself ) but i think in bootstrap.php people register their services routes, modules etc....

Third question: where can I found a good tutorial using some HMVC structure like that in the book? Or good tutorials in general.

https://github.com/phalcon/mvc/tree/master/hmvc

you can see many other examples in this repo.

p.s. i havent read the book you are talking about

Cheers!