the-controller.md

The Controller 🎮

Up and Running 👟

Every route you specify in your application will end in the static method of a controller. Controller are PHP classes that are derived from the FMVC/Controller base class.

This will look something like this:

#Controllers/MyController.php
use FMVC\Controller;
class MyController extends Controller {
    # Do your magic!
}

Now, after you got your fancy new controller, we need to populate it with some methods. These methods have to be public, static and need to get a reference on a FMVC/Request class instance. Like this:

#Contorllers/MyController.php
use FMVC\Controller;
class MyController extends Controller {
    public static function handler(&$request) {
         self::render(
              'profile/index', 
              $request,
              array(
              'title' => 'Profile', 
              'user' => $request->session['user'])
         );
    }
}

Here we utilized a method already provided by the FMVC/Controller parent class:

render(string $template, Request $request, array $params);

It takes the path to the template to render and an array with variables that should be available in the template.

All templates resign in views/ of your project. FMVC will automatically start looking there so you do not have to include this folder in the path.

{% hint style="info" %} All your output will be printed onto the document like you are used to from PHP. So you can also just use echo or print to create your output. {% endhint %}