The Front Controller design pattern is very useful in building scalable and maintainable web sites. I am building a proof of concept application and I need a good reference. As usual I searched the web and found some references on the pattern. Of particular interest were two that focused on implementing the pattern in PHP (the language I was using for my POC). I listed them here in the event they might be of help to you.
- I’m Mike offers a very simple explanation on his blog site. The nice thing about this post is it distills the information down to just the essentials of a front controller with nothing else. This is a good place to start.
- w3 style has a far more detailed explanation of a PHP 5 front controller as part of a Model View Controller implementation. He does not go all the way through the MVC process, but his article is a really good read. He does promise in his comments to write about composite views, but since that post is over 2 years old as of this writing and there is no post on composite views I would say we are out of luck.
As I find additional articles of interest I will update this post.
