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mirko-pagliai/simple-view-controller
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A lightweight PHP framework focused exclusively on the Controller and View layers

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simple-view-controller
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`simple-view-controller` is a lightweight PHP framework focused exclusively on the **Controller** and **View** layers.

It is designed as a library, not as a full-stack framework, and intentionally omits models, ORMs, template engines, and dependency injection containers.

The goal is to provide a minimal, explicit, and predictable runtime for small web applications.

Design goals
------------

[](#design-goals)

- Explicit behavior over implicit conventions
- Minimal and stable public API
- No magic exposed to the user
- Framework as a library, not as an application
- Use Symfony components without adopting a full-stack approach

What the framework provides
---------------------------

[](#what-the-framework-provides)

- An `Application` runtime to handle HTTP requests
- Routing based on [Symfony Routing](https://symfony.com/doc/current/create_framework/routing.html)
- A base `Controller` class
- A minimal `View` abstraction
- Automatic injection of the current `Request` into the `View`
- Automatic template resolution and rendering
- Centralized error handling (404 and 500)
- PSR-3 compatible logging
- Environment variable loading via dotenv

What the framework does NOT provide
-----------------------------------

[](#what-the-framework-does-not-provide)

By design, the framework does not include:

- Models or a data layer
- ORMs or database abstractions
- A dependency injection container
- A templating engine
- HTML helpers
- CLI tooling
- Code generation
- An application entry point (`index.php`)
- A global debug switch

All of these are application-level concerns.

Routing
-------

[](#routing)

Routing is based on [Symfony Routing](https://symfony.com/doc/current/create_framework/routing.html).

Routes can be defined in two supported ways.

### Option 1: defining routes in `config/routes.php` (best way)

[](#option-1-defining-routes-in-configroutesphp-best-way)

By default, the application will try to load routes from `config/routes.php`

The file must return a `RouteCollection`:

```