Added: Signin Up, connection to the DB, validator, base controller, base view, environment file, User model

core/View.php

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <?php
 class View
 {
-    public function render($view, $data = [], $layout = 'base')
-    {
-        // Extract variables to be accessible in the view
-        extract($data);
+    private $data = [];
+
+    public function render($view, $data = [], $layout = 'base') {
+        // Store the data 
+        $this->data = $data;
 
         // Capture the view content
         ob_start();
@@ -12,6 +13,13 @@ class View
         $content = ob_get_clean();
 
         // Include the base layout and inject the view content
-        require_once  views . "layouts/$layout.php";
+        require_once views . "layouts/$layout.php";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Safely get a value from the data array
+     */
+    public function get($key) {
+        return $this->data[$key] ?? null;
     }
 }