Working with Routes in Your Own MVC Framework

You already know that in the file /project/config/routes.php routes are placed, indicating the correspondences between URLs and controllers with actions. Routes are objects of the Route class. Let's create this class in the file /core/Route.php:

<?php
	namespace Core;
	
	class Route
	{
		private $path;
		private $controller;
		private $action;
		
		public function __construct($path, $controller, $action)
		{
			$this->path = $path;
			$this->controller = $controller;
			$this->action = $action;
		}
		
		public function __get($property)
		{
			return $this->$property;
		}
	}
?>

As you can see, the properties in this class are intended for reading only, which is achieved by using magic methods.

Now take a look at the file with routes. You can see that there is an array there that is returned via return. This means that if you include such a file via require, the result of the inclusion can be written to a variable, and that variable will contain our array:

<?php
	namespace Core;
	
	error_reporting(E_ALL);
	ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
	
	spl_autoload_register(function($class) {
		// your autoload implementation
	});
	
	// Read the array from the file with routes into a variable:
	$routes = require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/project/config/routes.php';
?>

Copy the code of my Route class and place it in the file /core/Route.php.

Get the array with routes in the index.php file.