As a result, route information (such as which action method to execute) was unknown to any middleware processing a request before the MVC middleware in the request processing pipeline.

For MVC (Model View Controller) development, Zend is including a new version of the Zend skeleton application, which leverages the Zend MVC layer and module systems.

O'Phinney believes middleware-based strategies will perform better than traditional full-stack MVC frameworks. The flip-side, however, is that most current middleware-based applications will require ...