Move all data-fetching and view-variable assembly out of public/index.php
into a new src/HomeController.php, following the same pattern as
SearchController, TfeController, SystemController, and ThesisEditController.
HomeController::create() builds the Database singleton dependency.
HomeController::handle() encapsulates:
- GET param parsing (page, year) with safe type coercion
- Display-mode detection: default random-latest view / year-filtered /
paginated-all theses
- All DB calls: getLatestPublishedYear, getLatestYearTheses, searchTheses,
countSearchResults, getPublishedTheses, countPublishedTheses,
getCoverPathsForTheses, getAvailableYears
- Batch cover-image loading for theses without a banner_path
- baseParams assembly for the pagination partial
- OG / meta tag array construction
- Graceful error handling (logs exception, returns safe empty state)
- Returns a flat array of view variables
public/index.php is now a 6-line dispatcher (require + create + handle +
extract) followed by a pure view template. Reduced from 100 to 71 lines.
All error-handling and data logic removed from the view layer entirely.
