What Is Laravel Resourceful Controllers?

Vaṇakkam! In this article your will learn all about Laravel resourceful controllers & its advantages of using in your daily life for development process.

I will make a fresh Laravel project and create Products CRUD operations with it. At the end of the article you will find the link to GitHub repository.

NOTE: I will be coding only the Controller & Routing side. There wont be any frontend code. But yes! based on the requests in GitHub repository I will create one.

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Prerequisites

Laravel installed in your computer or server. To install Laravel you can use the following

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel invoice

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Why Laravel Resourceful Controllers?

Most of the time in your development process you will be creating CRUD operations and it may take up some time to do so because you need to create CRUD functions in Controllers and Web Routes in web.php file

This is all simplified in Laravel with single line of artisan command & one line code in web.php

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Creating Resourceful Products Controller & Models & Migrations

New Resourceful Controller, Models & Migrations

Since I am very lazy I would like to create the Model, Migration, Controller, Resourceful Controller with one single command as follows:

php artisan make:model Models/Product --controller --migration --resource

No need to use optional parameters with the lengthy names, you can use alias as following. Just for the sake of demonstration I showed you that way.

--controller -> -c

--migration -> -m

--resource -> -r

TIP: If I am working on small project I will keep all my models in one single folder called as Models.

If any big projects now days I am more fascinated towards Repository Pattern, but its totally upto your choice.

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Resourceful Controller Only

If you already have Model & Migration then use the following command just to create the resourceful controller.

php artisan make:controller ProductsController --model="Models/Product" --resource

TIP: If you pass --model then Laravel will autogenerate Route Model Binding for that model. Awesome right?

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Resourceful Routes in web.php

Auto Resourceful Routes

Instead of typing all the routes you can just add single line of code in web.php ie resourceful route as follows

web.php

Route::resource('products', 'ProductsController');

Yes thats it. If you want to know what are all the URLS's that is registered then use the route:list command as follows

php artisan route:list

You will be able to see the following routes. Don't worry I have selected only 3 columns with the following command

php artisan route:list --columns=Method,URI,Action

+-----------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Method    | URI                     | Action                                          |
+-----------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| GET|HEAD  | products                | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@index   |
| POST      | products                | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@store   |
| GET|HEAD  | products/create         | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@create  |
| GET|HEAD  | products/{product}      | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@show    |
| PUT|PATCH | products/{product}      | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@update  |
| DELETE    | products/{product}      | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@destroy |
| GET|HEAD  | products/{product}/edit | App\Http\Controllers\ProductsController@edit    |
+-----------+-------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

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Manual Routes

If you are still not convinced and were to add it manually then you should add the following in web.php

web.php

Route::get('/products', 'ProductsController@index');
Route::get('/products/create', 'ProductsController@create');
Route::post('/products', 'ProductsController@store');
Route::get('/products/{product}', 'ProductsController@show');
Route::get('/products/{product}/edit', 'ProductsController@edit');
Route::patch('/products/{product}', 'ProductsController@update');
Route::delete('/products/{product}', 'ProductsController@destroy');

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Overall Controller (Birds Eye View)

Overall you controller will look like the following

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Product;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests\Products\ProductCreateRequest;
use App\Http\Requests\Products\ProductUpdateRequest;

class ProductsController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $product = Product::orderByDesc('created_at')->simplePaginate(10);
        return view('product.index', [
            'products' => $product
        ]);
    }

    public function create()
    {
        return view('product.create');
    }

    public function store(ProductCreateRequest $request)
    {
        Product::addProduct($request->all());
        return redirect('/products');
    }

    public function show(Product $product)
    {
        return view('product.show', [
            'product' => $product
        ]);
    }

    public function edit(Product $product)
    {
        return view('product.edit', [
            'product' => $product
        ]);
    }

    public function update(ProductUpdateRequest $request, Product $product)
    {
        Product::updateProduct($product, $request->all());
        return redirect('/products');
    }

    
    public function destroy(Product $product)
    {
        $product->delete();
        return redirect('/products');
    }
}

Yo! Hold on one second. Where are my validation rules? Those are extracted to Form Requests ProductCreateRequest & ProductUpdateRequest .

If you would like to learn more about the Form Requests then I have written an article on it Make Laravel Controllers Slim By Skimming Form Validation Request

NOTE: Most of the code over here is not written as the main objective of this article was to make you understand about the Resourceful Controllers & Routes

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GITHUB Project Link

Use the following link to review the project

Invoice Demo Project

NOTE: This is not a complete project, this is just to demo you how to work with resourceful controllers.

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Conclusion

Hope this cleared your doubts.

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