Controllers

Creating A Controller

A basic controller in Pine looks something like this

namespace Pine\Controllers;

use Pine\App\Controller;
use Pine\App\View;

class SampleController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return new View("controller");
    }
}

The controller can have any amount of functions, it's just a PHP class which extends a base Controller class from Pine.

Scaffolding

Pine offers a command line (CLI) utility which can scaffold a controller for an easier development time.

In order to scaffold a class, run the following command

./pine --make controller

After this, you'll be prompted to enter a name for the controller. Your output will look something similar to this.

$ ./pine --make controller
Enter controller name: UserController
Controller file './src/Controllers/UserController.php' created successfully.

And finally, UserController.php (Or whichever name you gave it) will look like this

namespace Pine\Controllers;

use Pine\App\Controller;
use Pine\App\Request;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request) {
        
    }
};