porting CI3 base controller to CI4 -- __construct vs initController

Thank you for an interesting and delightful discussion!

Thank you for the clarification. I've read that page on Filters and am not sure I'm convinced that using filters for authentication is all that great.

I'm curious to see how CI4's OOP is "cleaner." So far, I see a lot of cumbersome namespacing and a lot of ways it breaks your CI3 project.

While enjoying my morning coffee I put together a more detailed description of my CI4 back-end and how I have implemented the filters. I am not a blog-artist so it's here in github - https://github.com/tangix/ci4-zen-zone/t...ng-filters

Maybe a start as a blogger, who knows?

I have been living in PHP 5.x for too long and since CI3 didn't "force" me to use OOP I didn't. I have come to appreciate traits, interfaces and namespacing as it makes the code cleaner and more robust. For my development i use PHPStorm and find many of the code-navigation and -completion functions very helpful.

I really appreciate your explaining this, but it'll take me some time to absorb. In my CI3 project, I didn't hesitate to make model classes that combine the atomic, db-based model classes using Aggregation/Composition/Association. I basically had two types of model classes:
1) auto-generated DB_x classes, one for every db table, which are basic-but-extensible interfaces to my database. I wrote a script to read my db and automatically create one class for every table.
2) ad-hoc model classes as needed to combine the db classes into my business logic.

In my project described above I am using Entities extensively to transform data between front- and back-end. Many of the UI elements for example use JSON arrays for multi-pickers. I have created by own BaseEntity handling casts between arrays (from the front-end) and comma separated strings (stored in the database). The map directly

Do it! The world can always use more discourse and illustrations of coding techniques.

First step taken - https://github.com/tangix/ci4-zen-zone