Controllers

Controllers live in app/Controllers under the App\Controllers namespace. They extend the base Controller class.

Basic Controller

<?php
namespace App\Controllers;

class WelcomeController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $data = [
            'content' => 'Welcome to Roolith framework!',
            'title' => 'Roolith Framework',
        ];

        return $this->view('home', $data);
    }
}

Returning a View

Use $this->view($filename, $data) to render a template from the views folder. The data array is passed to the template as variables.

return $this->view('home', ['title' => 'Roolith Framework']);

See Views for template syntax.

Returning Data

Return an array or a model result to send it as a response. This is handy for quick JSON style endpoints.

public function users()
{
    return User::all();
}

public function show($id)
{
    return User::orm()->find($id);
}

Registering Routes

Point routes to controller methods with the Controller@method syntax. See Routing.

$router->get("/example", WelcomeController::class . "@index");

Generating Controllers

php roolith generate controller DemoController

See Generator.