Controllers

Controllers handle requests. They define how to extract relevant information from the request, check permissions by calling the correct Permission and calling the suitable transaction. They define which HTTP response including the response code is sent back and the conversion of internal data to json (return $this->handleView(...)).

Since the business logic („What is part of an event (= transaction)?“) is in the transaction classes, a controller method usually just calls one actual transaction method (apart from permission checks). It can read necessary information from the session to give those as arguments to the transaction class.

We have:

• REST controllers with the name <submodule>RestController.php
• render controllers with the name <module>Controller.php

Render controllers are called that because they always render a part of the website, as opposed to API controllers (like REST), which are usually called by the rendered website (client) and return data, not an HTML document.