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title: Controllers
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summary: Controllers form the backbone of your SilverStripe application. They handle routing URLs to your templates.
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introduction: In this guide you will learn how to define a Controller class and how they fit into the SilverStripe response and request cycle.
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The [api:Controller] class handles the responsibility of delivering the correct outgoing [api:HTTPResponse] for a
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given incoming [api:HTTPRequest]. A request is along the lines of a user requesting the homepage and contains
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information like the URL, any parameters and where they've come from. The response on the other hand is the actual
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content of the homepage and the HTTP information we want to give back to the user.
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Controllers are the main handlers for functionality like interactive forms, rendering the correct templates and
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performing and navigating around the permission checks on the users actions.
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[CHILDREN]
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## Related Documentation
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* [Execution Pipeline](../execution_pipeline)
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## API Documentation
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* [api:Controller]
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* [api:HTTPRequest]
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* [api:HTTPResponse]
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