Dracony has a new post to his site that suggests replacing controllers with middleware and how it relates to some of the current controller practices.

Middleware is now a very popular topic in the PHP community, here are some of my thoughts on the subject. [...] The idea behind it is “wrapping” your application logic with additional request processing logic, and then chaining as much of those wrappers as you like. So when your server receives a request, it would be first processed by your middlewares, and then after you generate a response it will also be processed by the same set.

After giving a few examples of what could be a good fit for use as middleware, he makes the suggestion to replace controllers. He talks about some of the problems that middleware brings with it and how to turn things around and write controllers as middleware (and not wrap them in it). He finishes with a mention of the work being done on PSR-7 (the HTTP Request proposal) and some thoughts on how it could fit into his middleware ideas.