Overview

Front-controller class to find and invoke a page-controller.

An example bootstrap "index.php" for your web root using the front controller ...

<?php
require 'Solar.php';
Solar::start();
$front = Solar::factory('Solar_Controller_Front');
$front->display();
Solar::stop();

Package

This class is part of the Solar_Controller package.

Inheritance:

Configuration Keys

  • classes: Base class names for page controllers.

  • disable: A list of app names that should be disallowed and treated as "not found" if a URI maps to them.

  • default: The default page-name.

  • routing: Key-value pairs explicitly mapping a page-name to a controller class (static mapping).

  • rewrite: Rewrite URIs according to these rules (dynamic mapping).

  • replace: Replacement strings for rewrite rules.

  • explain: Dump an explanation of the routing path when a page is not found.

Constants

None.

Public Properties

The Solar_Controller_Front class has no public properties; try the list of all properties.

Public Methods

These are all the public methods in the Solar_Controller_Front class.

You can also view the list of all public, protected, and private methods.

__construct()

Constructor.

__destruct()

Default destructor; does nothing other than provide a safe fallback for calls to parent::__destruct().

display()

Displays the output of an page/action/info specification URI.

dump()

Convenience method for getting a dump the whole object, or one of its properties, or an external variable.

fetch()

Fetches the output of a page/action/info specification URI.

locale()

Looks up class-specific locale strings based on a key.



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