How do you pass values between PHP pages for MVC?

Question

How do PHP programs pass values between model, view, and controller pages? For example, if a controller had an array, how does it pass that to the view?

EDIT:

Answer 1

I struggled with this question myself. I had returned to php programming after nearly a decade. I ran into couple of issues deploying PHP MVC frameworks into an experimental server so I ended up building a simple MVC variant myself.

In my simple design (front) controller interacts with the Model to populate a payload object and passes it to the view. Each view is implemented in a separate PHP file so controller uses include, to "load" the desired view. The view then can access the data via the designated name ($dataId) for the payload object.

class Controller {
        public $model;
        ...
        public function display($viewId,$dataId,$data)
        {
          $url = $this->getViewURL($viewId);
          $this->loadView($url,$dataId,$data);              
        }

        public function getViewURL($key)
        {
            $url = 'view/list_view.php';

            if($key == 'create')
            {
                $url = 'view/create_view.php';
            }
            else if($key == 'delete')
            {
                $url = 'view/delete_view.php';
            }


            return $url;            
        }

        public function loadView($url,$variable_name, $data)
        {
            $$variable_name = $data;
            include $url;
        }
}