Pro PHP 8 MVC: Model View Controller Architecture-Driven Application Development

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3. Building a Router

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In the last chapter, we put together the code for basic routing. It’s time to package this code up in a way that we can reuse and extend.

What Routers Are Used For

Before we can build a good router, we need to try and understand the problem. When PHP first started out, it was common for applications to rely heavily on the file-based routing that web servers offered.

File-based routing is where you have different files for each URL your website responds to. Say you had a webroot/pages/edit-page.php file; file-based routing would expose that as http://your-website.com/pages/edit-page.php ...