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CMS and MVC architecture

Short answer

A CMS lets users create and publish content without coding. MVC separates an application into Model (data), View (UI), and Controller (request handling); the controller calls the model and selects a view to return HTML.

What do you mean by CMS (content management system)? Explain MVC architecture in web?

Content Management System (CMS)

A CMS is a software system that allows users to create, edit, store, organise and publish web content through an easy interface, without writing code. It separates content from design, supports multiple users with roles (admin, editor, author), and has templates, plugins and version control. Examples: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal. It is used for blogs, news portals, college and company websites.

MVC architecture in web

MVC (Model-View-Controller) separates a web application into three parts:

  • Model: Data and business rules; communicates with the database.
  • View: What the user sees; HTML templates that display model data.
  • Controller: Accepts the user's request, calls the model, selects a view and returns the response.
Browser -> Controller -> Model -> Database
              |            |
              +--> View <--+
Browser <-- HTML response

Working

  1. The user sends an HTTP request (for example /books).
  2. The router passes it to a controller method.
  3. The controller asks the model to fetch or save data.
  4. The model returns data from the database.
  5. The controller passes the data to the view.
  6. The view builds the HTML page returned to the browser.

Benefits

  • Clear separation of data, UI and logic.
  • Parallel work by designers and developers.
  • Easy testing, maintenance and reuse.
  • Different views (web, mobile) for the same model.

Frameworks such as Laravel, Django, Spring MVC and ASP.NET MVC use this pattern.

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