🔥 Building Widgets in My PHP Framework – make:widget Command, Hooks, and Controller Integration
1In this video I walk through the brand‑new widget system I added to my custom PHP MVC framework, Chappy.php.
✅ What I cover:
Using the new make:widget command to quickly scaffold widgets
How widgets hook into my admindashboard
Registering widgets directly inside a controller
Passing dynamic data into a widget for display
Along the way, I poke a little fun at some of the fake recruiter outreach I keep getting (shout‑out to those from the US Minor Outlying Islands and Nigeria) and why I keep pushing updates to my framework to fill in my GitHub contribution graph.
If you’re building your own framework, curious how widgets work, or just enjoy seeing developer progress and a little humor along the way, you’ll enjoy this one.
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