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:

/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:

index.php<?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';
?>