Controllers

Controllers manage the logic and are stored in the app/Http/Controllers folder.

Basic Controller

The following command can be used to generate a simple (empty) controller:


                php artisan make:controller ExampleController

Your newly created ExampleController will look as follows:


                < ?php 
 

                namespace App\Http\Controllers; 
 

                use Illuminate\Http\Request; 
 

                class ExampleController extends Controller 

                { 

                // implement functions here 

                }

Resource Controller

If you want to generate all CRUD methods at once, use:


                php artisan make:controller ExampleController --resource

This command will create a Resource Controller with the methods index, create, store, show, edit, update and destroy.


                class ExampleController extends Controller 

                { 

                public function index() { ... } 
 


                public function create() { ... } 
 


                public function store(Request $request) { ... } 
 


                public function show(string $id) { ... } 
 


                public function edit(string $id) { ... } 
 


                public function update(Request $request, string $id) { ... } 
 


                public function destroy(string $id) { ... } 

                }

Route Overview for ExampleController:

Verb	URI	Action	Method Name
GET	`/posts`	index	posts.index
GET	`/posts/create`	create	posts.create
POST	`/posts`	store	posts.store
GET	`/posts/{post}`	show	posts.show
GET	`/posts/{post}/edit`	edit	posts.edit
PUT/PATCH	`/posts/{post}`	update	posts.update
DELETE	`/posts/{post}`	destroy	posts.destroy