Routing in PHP
Explore the fundamentals of routing in PHP web applications to manage HTTP requests based on URLs. Understand when to use functional style routing for small apps and controller style for larger ones. Learn best practices for generating URLs and maintaining clean, maintainable application architecture.
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Why routing
As we already know, we should handle our application’s HTTP requests in a single script. At the same time, we want our application to provide different resources depending on the URL. For this, we need a router, a module that parses the request and determines which piece of code should handle it based on the predefined configuration.
Using a router
So, how do we write a router? As usual, we don’t. Although writing it could be an ...