As Ravensholde approaches Public Beta, I wanted to refactor the games structure to match more like what a professional app would be like.

The file structure is as follows:

Classes
  Blocks
    Block
  Controllers
    Controller
  Database
    Connection
  Helpers
    Helper
  Models
    Model
 Templates
  Admin
  Base
  Game

With composer.json setting the autoload PSR for the Classes.

Index.php has been re-written to work as a router, like so (pseudo code to illustrate):

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Classes\Blocks\Block;
use Classes\Controllers\Controller;
use Classes\Database\Connection;
use Classes\Helpers\Helper;
use Classes\Models\Model;

class Index {

    protected Model $model;
    protected Helper $helper;

    public function __construct(
        Model $model;
        Helper $helper;
    ) {
        $this->model = $model;
        $this->helper = $helper;
    }

    public function execute()
    {
        session_start();

        // A router for a template
        $this->helper->addRoute('method', 'url', function(){
            $model = $this->model;
            $helper = $this->helper;
            $block = new Block($model, $helper);
            require_once('templates/base/template.php');
        });

        // A router for a controller
        $this->helper->addRoute('method', 'url', function(){
            $model = $this->model;
            $helper = $this->helper;
            $controller = new Controller($model, $helper);
            echo $controller-execute();
        });
    }

}

// Only create one connection to be used throughout
$mysqliAdapter = new Connection();
$mysqliConnection = $mysqliAdapter::connection();

// Initialise models and helpers
$model = new Model();
$helper = new Helper($model);

// Initialise the router
$index = new Index(
    $model,
    $helper
);

// execute the router
$index->execute();

This has made the code base much cleaner, and will be far easier to maintain long term.