In essence, each of our page scripts follows this organizational flow:
Generic Page Script
1 <?php
2 // one or more identical setup scripts
3 require 'setup.php';
4
5 // a series of dependencies to build a controller
6 $request = new \Mlaphp\Request($GLOBALS);
7 $response = new \Mlaphp\Response('/path/to/app/views');
8 $controller = new \Controller\PageName($request, $response);
9
10 // invoke the controller and send the response
11 $response = $controller->__invoke();
12 $response->send();
13 ?>Because we have been diligent about always using the same variable name for our controller object ($controller), always using the same method name for invoking it (__invoke()), and always using the same variable name for the response ($response), we can see that the only part of each page script that is different is the central section. That central block builds the controller object. Everything before and after is identical.