[insky]

A late trick I discovered, was that you can configure your php instance to inclued a file with every script. For example the following can be added to .htaccess:

  php_value auto_prepend_file 'before.php'

You can then use that for bootstrapping, front controller and to limit access. Can be a bit clumsy, but it's nicely divorced from simple page controllers.

[icedchai]

neat! this beats putting an include at the top of each file...

[krapp]

It certainly does.

I personally would still prefer a router but I know of a project which was written almost entirely in sprawling, procedural PHP that might benefit from this. Although I do wonder what the performance hit would be.