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you are doing it right. if you want to use fancy jargon for what you're doing say "I use apache as the controller, the database as the model and php for the view". that's how it's supposed to work since the first version of php/fi. php is primarily a templating engine.

but I disagree concerning register globals. I think it was the single thing that made php the most accessible language. we should bring them back but as a special variable with it's own prefix instead of $