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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Refactoring the Codebase Separating Concerns: MVC

Johnatan Guzman
PLUS
Johnatan Guzman
Courses Plus Student 2,360 Points

Extra credit: how to do it?

I use this code in the shirt.php file

<?php
    $id = $_GET["id"];
    $product = get_product($id);

    if(!isset($product)) {
        header("location: " . BASE_URL . "shirts/");
        exit();
    }

and this in the products.php file

<?php
function get_product($shirt_id) {
    if (isset($shirt_id)) {
        $product_id = $shirt_id;
        if(isset($products[$product_id])) {
            return $product = $products[$product_id];
        }
    }
}

But it fails everytime, that is, it always goes back to shirts page, which means that the $product variable isnt set by calling my function in the shirt.php file. I come from javascript, and im quite confused to why my code isnt working.

Aaron Munoz
Aaron Munoz
11,177 Points

I'm still trying to solve this with the best practices . It's still confusing to me how to separate controller from model. But if I'm looking at this correctly, the code at the top.

$id = $_GET["id"];
$product = get_product($id);

Should not be in the controller but rather in the model. Wouldn't you say?

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Johnatan Guzman, can you post all the code from the product.php file. I think the problem may be that your get_product function isn't able to access you products array.

Johnatan Guzman
Johnatan Guzman
Courses Plus Student 2,360 Points

Oh silly me, I added the line $products = get_products_all() inside the get_product function; And now it works as intended! Thanks!

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

No problem, glad I could help.

Johnatan Guzman
Johnatan Guzman
Courses Plus Student 2,360 Points

I actually changed it now as a parameter

$products = get_products_all();
    $id = $_GET["id"];
    $product = get_product($id, $products);

that worked also