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The Art of Modern PHP 8

You're reading from   The Art of Modern PHP 8 Learn how to write modern, performant, and enterprise-ready code with the latest PHP features and practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566156
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – PHP 8 OOP
2. Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Inheritance and Composition, Encapsulation and Visibility, Interfaces and Concretions 4. Chapter 3: Advanced OOP Features 5. Section 2 – PHP Types
6. Chapter 4: Scalar, Arrays, and Special Types 7. Chapter 5: Object Types, Interfaces, and Unions 8. Chapter 6: Parameter, Property, and Return Types 9. Section 3 – Clean PHP 8 Patterns and Style
10. Chapter 7: Design Patterns and Clean Code 11. Chapter 8: Model, View, Controller (MVC) Example 12. Chapter 9: Dependency Injection Example 13. Section 4 – PHP 8 Composer Package Management (and PHP 8.1)
14. Chapter 10: Composer For Dependencies 15. Chapter 11: Creating Your Own Composer Package 16. Section 5 – Bonus Section - PHP 8.1
17. Chapter 12: The Awesomeness That Is 8.1 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Controller

The first thing that a new request interacts with is the controller. As mentioned previously, the controller handles routing a request, coordinating the model to process the data, and then utilizing the view to get a response, which can then be returned. It acts as the outermost layer of your application.

Front controller

Within the MVC pattern there is another commonly used pattern called the Front Controller. This is the single point of entry for all web requests. Generally the Front Controller should be lean and delegate all actual work to specific controllers for specific requests.

The front controller's job is to take every single inbound request and decide what to do with it.

In some frameworks or applications, the front controller may handle all "Controller" level duties. However, in ToyMVC, we have decided to have discrete controllers for each section of the app. This keeps our classes small, allows us to stick to SOLID principles, and...

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