Hey, I was asking a lot of questions lately on this forum and it all boiled down to this one. We all know it is hype to implement front controller or master page index.php that handles all the requests to all the pages and reroutes you etc... All this for cleaner urls, easier code handling...
But what if you have a browser game with a lot of locations and variables, states, conditions etc.. I can't write a million if statements or switch statements on my index page. What if I implement such page structure as described below? Basicly you don't have single point of entry or one front controller but more main controllers that connect to subcontrollers:
if location forest
if loged in |---------------------------- forest.php
|------------------ start.php -------------|
| | if location home
| |-------------------------- homebase.php
| |
| | if location else
index.php---------| |------------------------- anywhere.php
|
| if in fight
|------------------- combat.php
|
| if not loged in
|------------------- homepage.php
Why would all pages have to go through index.php? This would be a big mess! Divide pages based on location, for example my start.php page will decide where to redirect further. So in this case I have two bigger controllers not just one front one. Is this still a good convention? I mean is this still a good front controll design or is it better to leave all the redirects to index.php?