Basic MCV framework example

<!-- VIEW -->
<?php include_once '../controller/BlogPost.php'; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Blogging" charset="utf-8">
    <title>Framework</title>
    <meta name="description" content="Simple blogging site example">
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
    <h1>The Daily Blog</h1>
    <div id="blogPosts" class="post">
    <?php
        $blogPosts  = new BlogPost;
        $post       = $blogPosts->getPost(2);
        // echo '<pre>' . print_r($post,true) . '</pre>';
        $index      = 0;
        while(!empty($post->post[$index])):
    ?>
    <h2><?php echo $post->title[$index]; ?></h2>
        <p><?php echo $post->post[$index]; ?><br />
            <span class="footer">Posted By: <?php echo $post->author; ?> || Website: <?php echo $post->url; ?> || Posted on: <?php echo $post->datePosted[$index]; ?>
                <?php
                    if( !empty( $post->tags[$index]) ):
                        echo ' || ' ;
                        foreach($post->tags[$index] as $tags):
                ?>

                <?php
                            echo $tags . '&nbsp;';
                        endforeach;
                    endif;
                    $index++;
                    if($index>0):
                ?>
                <hr class="hr" />
                <?php
                    endif;
                endwhile;
                ?>
            </span>
        </p>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
<footer>
</footer>
</html>


<!-- CONTROLLER -->
<?php
/**
 * This will retrieve the various blog posts from the database, which
 * is called from the 'Blogs' class (include.php).
 * I will need a way to retrieve and edit blog posts, so more logic is
 * needed.
 * This is based on Ben Mills excellent tutorial found here:
 * net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-create-an-object-oriented-blog-using-php/
 * This should go into the folder libraries and be called blogposts.php
 * unless of course you want to change the file paths and names to make it more
 * sense to you.
 *
 * @Author:     Shaun_B
 * @Date:       2012-10-24
 * @Todo:       More logic to retrieve and edit the blog posts
 *
 */
include_once '../controller/DateHelper.php';
include_once '../model/GetData.php';
class BlogPost {
    // Class-level variables:
    public $title;
    public $post;
    public $author;
    public $url;
    public $tags;
    public $datePosted;
    function __contruct() {
        $this->title = Array();
        $this->post = Array();
        $this->author = null;
        $this->url = null;
        $this->tags = array();
        $this->datePosted = Array(new DateClass());
    }
    function getPost($uID = null) {
        $blogPosts      = new GetData();
        $key            = 'user_details';
        $index          = 0;
        $posts          = $blogPosts->getBlogPost($uID);
        $this->author   = $posts[$key]['first_name'] . ' ' . $posts[$key]['last_name'];
        $this->url      = '<abbr title="Visit ' . $this->author . '\'s website"><a href="' . $posts[$key]['url'] . '" target="_blank">' . $posts[$key]['url'] . '</a></abbr>';
        $this->email    = $posts[$key]['email'];

        foreach ($posts['blog_post'] as $key => $post){
            $this->title[$index] = $post['title'];
            $this->post[$index] = $post['post'];
            $inDatePosted= explode( '-', $post['date_posted'] );
            $date = new DateHelper;
            $date->setDate( $inDatePosted[2], $inDatePosted[1], $inDatePosted[0]-2000 );
            $this->datePosted[$index] = $date->fullDate;
            if( sizeof( $post['tags'] ) > 0) {
                foreach ($post['tags'] as $tags) {
                    $this->tags[$index][] = '<abbr title="Search Google for ' . $tags . '"> '
                        . '<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=on&q=' . $tags
                        . '" target="_blank">' . $tags . '</a> </abbr>';
                }
            }
            $index++;
        }

        return $this;
    }
    function __destruct() {
        ;;
    }
}


<!-- MODEL -->
<?php
/**
 * Original source:
 * net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-create-an-object-oriented-blog-using-php/
 * New version uses PDO objects as my_sql is deprecated
 *
 * @author:     Shaun B
 * @date:       2012-10-24 | 2014-03-15
 * @todo:
 */
class GetData {
    public $connection;
    public $user;
    public $password;
    public $databaseHandle;
    public $result;

    function __construct(){
        $this->connection = 'mysql:dbname=blog_db;host=127.0.0.1;';
        $this->user = 'admin';
        $this->password = 'password';
        try {
            $this->databaseHandle = new PDO($this->connection, $this->user, $this->password);
            $this->databaseHandle->setAttribute(\PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        } catch (PDOException $e) {
            die ('Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage());
        }
        $this->result = Array();
    }
    /**
     * Here's our querys as functions
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-15
     * @todo:
     */
    function getBlogPost($userID = null) {
        $postID = Array();
        if ($userID != null) {
            $_result = $this->getUser($userID);
            if(is_array($_result)){
                $this->result['user_details'] =  $_result;
            }
            $_result = $this->getBlog($userID);
            if(is_array($_result)){
                $this->result['blog_post'] = $_result;
            }
        }
        return array_reverse($this->result);
    }
    /**
     * Here's our query to get the user details
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-15
     * @todo:
     */
    function getUser($userID = null){
        $query = $this->databaseHandle->query( "SELECT `first_name`, `last_name`, `url`, `email` FROM `people` WHERE id = " . $userID );
        return $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    }
    /**
     * Here's our query to get the user details
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-15
     * @todo:
     */
    function getBlog($userID = null){
        $result = Array();
        $query = $this->databaseHandle->query( "SELECT `id`, `title`, `post`, `date_posted` FROM `blog_posts` WHERE `author_id` = " . $userID );
        foreach($query as $key => $data){
            $result[$key] = $data;
            $result[$key]['tags'] = $this->getTagID($data['id']);
        }
        return $result;
    }
    /**
     * This will build the array of tags by the user
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-16
     * @todo:
     */
    function getTagID($pID = null){
        $result = Array();
        $query = $this->databaseHandle->query( "SELECT `tag_id` FROM `blog_post_tags` WHERE `blog_post_id` = " . $pID );
        foreach($query as $key => $data){
            $result[$key] = $this->getTag($data['tag_id']);
        }
        return $result;
    }
    /**
     * And this will return individual tags
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-16
     * @todo:
     */
    function getTag($tID = null){
        $query = $this->databaseHandle->query( "SELECT `name` FROM `tags` WHERE `id` = " . $tID);
        $query = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        return $query['name'];
    }
    /**
     * Destruct function closes database connection
     *
     * @author:     Shaun B
     * @date:       2014-03-16
     * @todo:
     */
    function __destruct() {
        $this->databaseHandle = null;
    }
}