Introduction to PHP Router
Explore how to build a PHP router to handle HTTP requests efficiently. This lesson helps you create clean and secure URLs by mapping paths to request handlers, improving both professionalism and security in your PHP applications.
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Our application works quite well. However, it’s not professional yet. This is because we’re calling the corresponding file in the URL for each page request. This is a problem. Let’s see why.
The problem
The way that our application is handling the HTTP request is not very smart:
- The URI is not elegant.
- It allows for security issues since we’re revealing the internal structure of our files.