MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. It divides a given software application into three interconnected parts, so as to separate internal representations of information from the ways that information is presented to or accepted from the user.
MVC: Model-View-Controller
MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. It divides a given software application into three interconnected parts, so as to separate internal representations of information from the ways that information is presented to or accepted from the user.
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern organizes and separates software into three distinct roles:
- The Model encapsulates your application data, application flow, and business logic.
- The View extracts data from the Model and format it for presentation
- The Controller direct application flow and receive input and translates it for the Model and View.
The main thing to remember here is that extensions (mostly components) can have multiple views, and each view can have one or more layouts. Each view assembles a fixed set of information, but each layout can display that information in different ways. For example, the Category view in the Articles component assembles a number of articles. These articles could be displayed in a list or in a table (and probably other ways as well). So this view may have a "list" layout and a "table" layout to choose from.
Modules, on the other hand, are very simple. They generally display one thing one way. Modules don't really have views but they do support a layout. Some developers might even support a choice of layout through module parameters.
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