The real reason I'm asking is because I want to design a PHP app that uses a
similar framework to a current Java/JSP app I'm developing, and I will need
to use a controller php file that forwards the request and response objects
it receives to another php.
Java Servlets do this nicely because
No (not out of the box anyway) BUT the beauty of PHP is its much simpler
than JSP or ASP's server.response() server.request() methods (sorry if thats
not the exact syntax - I haven't done huge amounts of ASP/JSP work lately),
in most cases you simply output the data (i.e. print / echo something;)