the-router-doesnt-work-did-you-check-the-wi-fi-cable.md

description
Introduction to the router concept

The Router doesn't work? Did you check the Wi-Fi cable?

How does FMVC find it's routes?

The essence of FMVC (and every other MVC Framework) is to provide routes for your view their API-calls. Normally, PHP uses the filesystem as a kind of router. The web server has its root directory and will look there for the requested file.

FMVC makes use of a so-called rewrite condition. This condition tells the server to redirect every call to the index.php file. This file will then load config/routes.php .

This file contains an array of routes, the HTTP methods these routes support and the corresponding controller methods. This may sound a bit weird but let's see:

# config/routes.php
<?php
  return [
    'base_url' => '/', #please do only add subfolders
    '' => [ # index route
      'GET' =>'IndexController::index' # HTTP Method is used as key
                                       # pointing to Controller::Method
                                       # the ControllerName should also
                                       # equal the file it is stored in.
    ]
  ];

The key base_url is being used, if the files are stored in subfolders or the application itself resides in such.

How such a controller implementation looks will get its own chapter.

{% page-ref page="the-controller.md" %}