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JavaScript AngularJS MVC Frameworks in AngularJS When to Use MVC vs DOM Manipulation Libraries?

Ricardo Vargas
Ricardo Vargas
3,583 Points
Posted by Ricardo Vargas
Ricardo Vargas
3,583 Points

what are the advantages on an MVC vs a PHP application?

you can update data within PHP and then load it , angular js seems to do the same, what are the main differences and why both exist?

3 Answers

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith
2,769 Points
Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith
2,769 Points

I think you're a bit confused. MVC can be used a long with PHP. MVC isn't a language it's a way of handling things. It's about seperating everything into three distinct categories to keep them separate. A simple analogy would we be HTML and CSS. You don't want the styling in your HTML so you keep it completely separate with CSS.

MVC is the same concept but a little more to it.

Model - Probably a database and is where data is stored.

View - The output it's whats handles how data is displayed (for web it will be your templates)

Controller - The middle man (your php in your case it sounds like). It does all the work and takes or changes info in the model. IT also will work with your view by telling it what to display.

Justin Walters
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Justin Walters
PHP Development Techdegree Student 18,894 Points

Excellent explanation.

Andrew VanVlack
Andrew VanVlack
20,155 Points
Andrew VanVlack
Andrew VanVlack
20,155 Points

MVC is a concept for how you setup your applications while PHP is a language. You can set your PHP application in a MVC way. If you are talking about PHP vs a framework like angular it is that PHP is a server side language and angular is a front end framework using javascript.

You can use angular and a PHP server together. Parts of them do replace each other as you noticed. Updating all your data on the front end of an application can make it a lot faster as you do not have to request a page load every time you change part of the data. You can do the loading loading form php in pure javascript but a framework makes it a lot easer for when there is so much going on in your application.

So few things to note.

Front End Language: Javascript, Framework: Angular (MVC)

Back End Language: PHP, Famework: Laravel (MVC)

Ben Myhre
Ben Myhre
28,726 Points
Ben Myhre
Ben Myhre
28,726 Points

Two different things.

The advantage of MVC (or any architectural pattern) is that you are creating readable, consistent, code that helps you implement basic programming concepts like Separation of Concerns and Single Responsibility.

Someone can make a PHP language with MVC in mind, but they are two separate things.