Elegant PHP Architectures?

akweboa164 asks: "I work as a lone developer creating small to medium scale PHP/MySQL websites for different clients. I have been doing this for about two years now, and have tried different things as far as website layout/architecture goes. With sites that use the fusebox architecture, front controller (thanks J2EE), N-tier, to having a simple 'include(config.php);' line at the top of every file, I am left with the feeling that all of the sites I have created are 50% elegance, and 50% nasty kludge. I am left with a sinking feeling because I know that they could be better, but I lack to expertise and experience to make them that way. I am looking for overall architecture that is open and fits within the constraints of PHP (ie. relying little on OO) and separates logic, makes updates easy, etc. I wanted to ask Slashdot's crowd of web developers what their most elegant code layout/design web solutions were, and what advice would you dish out to new developers, as well as seasoned professionals."

Comments

Dude, don't worry about it.

[Anonymous Coward]

95% of all Internet endeavors go bust within the first 2 years, chances are, you won't have to touch the code again. The other 5% are all porn sites, in which case, you don't want to touch the code to begin with or maybe you do... Well dude, use a front controller like Jakarta Struts.

Re:My PHP tips

[FryGuy1013]

unless you have register_globals turned on..

if (!isdefined("real")) die("hacker");

and

define("real", 42);

would be better.