All PHP frameworks use objects to represent the incoming request. One of the greatest advantages of this is encapsulation: we can store all of the superglobal values as properties on our request object and those values will be preserved and protected from being tampered with unlike the superglobals which can have their values altered.

We will be able to use some of the properties on our request object in order to perform important operations such as routing the request to the correct handler (controller) etc.

The Request class which I create here is a superlight model based on the Symfony Http Foundation request class