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Front controller

The front controller software design pattern is listed in several pattern catalogs and is related to the design of web applications. It is "a controller that handles all requests for a website," which is a useful structure for web application developers to achieve flexibility and reuse without code redundancy.

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Front controller

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Edges31
Triples49
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
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related to Examples · 14
Front controller → Adobe FlexCro, Apache StrutsASP, Bailador, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Haskell, LaminasSpring FrameworkYesod, Laravel, NET MVCCairngorm, PHP, RakuDrupalMVC, Several, Symfony, Yii
related to Benefits and liabilities · 10
Front controller → As, Because, Centralized, Configurability, The, There, This, Though, Thread, Thus
related to Instruction · 10
Front controller → Based, Front, Java, PHP, Python, Raku, Ruby, The, This, While
related to Implementation · 4
Front controller → Flow, Front, Request, XML
related to Comparison · 2
Front controller → MVC, The
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is a · 1
Front controller → usage of page controllers mapped to each site page or path
see also · 1
Front controller → Software

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Front controlleris ausage of page controllers mapped to each site page or path0.90text
PHPinstance ofor as a script in a scripting language0.80text
Rakuinstance ofor as a script in a scripting language0.80text
Python or Ruby that is called for every request of a web sessioninstance ofor as a script in a scripting language0.80text
user trackinginstance ofThis implementation of centralized control that avoids using multiple controllers is desirable for enforcing application-wide policies0.80text
security.Thread safetyinstance ofThis implementation of centralized control that avoids using multiple controllers is desirable for enforcing application-wide policies0.80text
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesThere0.60section
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesCentralized0.60section
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesThe0.60section
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesThis0.60section
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesThread0.60section
Front controllerrelated to Benefits and liabilitiesThus0.60section

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