Simple MVC is a simple, clean and minimal MVC framework in PHP. It was created for educational purposes and small personal web projects. It allows layout templates and will look through a hierarchy of layout names in order: - controller-action.php - controller.php - application.php It will always use application.php if no other files are created and throw an error if it is not available. A appController.php file needs to be created in '/app/controllers/' which gets instatiated with each route.