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Posted by Michael Cook
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Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points

I need advice on organizing my classes for a simple blog site

I am building my first site, a blog, using an mvc framework, but I need a bit of advice. I have a few utility classes that I have written that I feel good about, but I also have a Post class and a PostCollection class. What I am wondering is if I should put my createNewPost() method in the Post class or not? The createNewPost() method will connect to the database and add a new post to it. Or should I create another class for this method? I am still trying to understand how to separate out different methods into appropriate classes. Thanks for any advice.

Pascal Breitrück
Pascal Breitrück
Courses Plus Student 3,206 Points
Pascal Breitrück
Pascal Breitrück
Courses Plus Student 3,206 Points

Hey Michael, good question. I've also been working on the right structure for some time now. I work a lot with Symfony . There I have enties (ORM/Table), repositories (in the repository lives the complete communication with the database . For complex logic I create single service classes .

I would have your createNewPost() in the repository ;D .

application
  - controllers
  - models
     - authentication
         - services
         - mappers
         - ...
     - mail
         - services
         - mappers
         - ...
     ... (other directories)
  - views
  - templates

Some time ago I found a good answer to the topic model.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5863870/how-should-a-model-be-structured-in-mvc

I hope that helps ;D HAPPY CODING

Michael Cook
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Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points

Hey Pascal thanks very much for the reply and the link, its (somewhat) helpful, though I am using Slim framework and a lot of what's in the Symfrony framework is very foreign to me. Slim doesn't give you the same kind of detailed file structure and separation of different classes into different folders like that, and unfortunately Treehouse does a poor job of explaining this stuff.