So, essentially, the question is, to develop a PHP back-end to an iOS application, would you implement an MVC architecture on the PHP side? Or no, since the client side (iOS) already has an MVC architecture?
Or, since we’re just passing happy little JSON packets in between front / back end, both server and client should employ MVC architecture? Thus we can implement “private api key” authentication and other security measures at the device level?
Any ideas suggestions welcomed.
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I use MVC in both. Yes the views server-side are very simple, but that’s ok. Still nice to have separation of concerns for all the usual reasons.
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Using a PHP MVC framework for ios development is a good idea but you should definitely take a look at these Moblile App development frameworks.They additionally provide access to back-end API’s & you can run tests in php,python,ruby etc.(Mostly they work both for ios & android apps).
And if its only that you want to use a php framework then take a look at dolphinphp framework.It is the first php framework for native cross-platform mobile app development.