dispatch uses the super-global variable $_SERVER which is generally not recommended.
Instead of super-globals, we recommend to explicitly inject the dependencies
of your class. This makes your code less dependent on global state and it
becomes generally more testable:
// BadclassRouter{publicfunctiongenerate($path){return$_SERVER['HOST'].$path;}}// BetterclassRouter{private$host;publicfunction__construct($host){$this->host=$host;}publicfunctiongenerate($path){return$this->host.$path;}}classController{publicfunctionmyAction(Request$request){// Instead of$page=isset($_GET['page'])?intval($_GET['page']):1;// Better (assuming you use the Symfony2 request)$page=$request->query->get('page',1);}}
The expression $service of type null|string is loosely compared to false; this is ambiguous if the string can be empty. You might want to explicitly use === null instead.
In PHP, under loose comparison (like ==, or !=, or switch conditions),
values of different types might be equal.
For string values, the empty string '' is a special case, in particular
the following results might be unexpected:
''==false// true''==null// true'ab'==false// false'ab'==null// false// It is often better to use strict comparison''===false// false''===null// false
Instead of super-globals, we recommend to explicitly inject the dependencies of your class. This makes your code less dependent on global state and it becomes generally more testable: