v1.0.0-beta.3

Added Views shared data feature
Added Controller onRequest feature
Added Timezone settings

Author: alddesign

index.php

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
     die('Damn, run <b>composer update</b> before using EZ-MVC.<br/>Please, <a href="https://getcomposer.org">get composer.</a> and thank me later.');
 }
 require ($autoloader); //using composers autoloader file
+
 session_start();
 
+//Set default timezone as soon as possible
+date_default_timezone_set(Alddesign\EzMvc\System\Config::system('default-timezone', 'UTC'));
+
+//Route request to controller action
 Alddesign\EzMvc\System\Router::routeRequest();

system/Controller.php

@@ -7,7 +7,21 @@
  */
 abstract class Controller
 {
-    protected static function isController()
+    public static function isController()
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Can be overridden in the App´s controller classes. Will be executed before the controller action is called.
+     * 
+     * @param string $action Name of the actions based on the url controller/action
+     * @param string $id First urls parameter after controller/action
+     * @param array $params All further paramters after controller/action/id
+     * 
+     * @return mixed If FALSE is returned, the request will be aborted (without any error)
+     */
+    public static function onRequest(string $action, string $id, array $params)
     {
         return true;
     }

system/Helper.php

@@ -303,6 +303,15 @@ public static function session(string $name, &$outVar, $default = "")
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	/** 
+	 * Returns the value of a session variable. 
+	 * @return mixed|bool FALSE if the session variable doesnt exist
+	 */
+	public static function sessionVal(string $name, $default = false)
+	{
+		return isset($_SESSION[$name]) ? $_SESSION[$name] : $default;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Redirects to given url. 
 	 * 

system/Router.php

@@ -31,15 +31,23 @@ public static function routeRequest()
             Helper::ex('Invalid URL "%s".', self::$originalRequestUrl);
         }
 
-        if(!method_exists(self::CONTROLLER_NAMESPACE . self::$controller, "isController"))
+        if(!method_exists(self::CONTROLLER_NAMESPACE . self::$controller, 'isController'))
         {
             Helper::ex('Invalid controller "%s".', self::$controller);
         }
 
-        $result = call_user_func(sprintf('%s%s::%s', self::CONTROLLER_NAMESPACE, self::$controller, self::$action), self::$id, self::$params); //Redirect to controller action
-        $restype = gettype($result);
+        //onRequest
+        $result = call_user_func([self::CONTROLLER_NAMESPACE . self::$controller, 'onRequest'], self::$action,  self::$id, self::$params);
+        if($result === false)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        //call to controller action method
+        $result = call_user_func([self::CONTROLLER_NAMESPACE . self::$controller, self::$action], self::$id, self::$params); //Redirect to controller action
+        $resultType = gettype($result);
 
-        if($restype === 'string' || $restype === 'double' || $restype === 'integer' || $restype === 'boolean')
+        if($resultType === 'string' || $resultType === 'double' || $resultType === 'integer' || $resultType === 'boolean')
         {
             echo $result;
         }

system/View.php

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ class View
     /** @var array */
     public $data = [];
 
+    /** @var array Data which is shared across all views. Will be overridden if sames keys are used in regular data arrays. */
+    public static $sharedData = [];
+
     private const VIEWPATH = __DIR__."/../app/views/";
 
     /**
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ private function __construct(string $name, array $data = [])
         }
 
         $this->name = $name;
-        $this->data = $data;
+        $this->data = Helper::e(View::$sharedData)? $data : array_merge(View::$sharedData, $data);
     }
 
     /**

system/system.config.php

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@
  */
 $GLOBALS["_EZMVC_SYS_CONFIG"] =
 [
-    "app-name" => "Sample App",                 //The name of your app
+    "app-name" => "EZ MVC Sample App",          //The name of your app
     "base-url" => "http://localhost/ez-mvc",    //Them url pointing to the root directory of EZ-MVC (where the index.php is located)
     "default-controller" => "Main",             //The default controller when none is specified
     "default-action" => "index",                //The default action when none is specified
+    "default-timezone" => "Europe/Vienna",      //See: https://www.php.net/manual/de/timezones.php
     "db-driver" => "sqlite",                    //"mysql", "sqlite" and "sqlsrv" are supported for now. https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.drivers.php 
     "db-name" => dirname(__DIR__) . "/app/sample-database.sqlite",
     "db-host" => "",