Laravel Controllers

Can group related request handling logic into a single class.

• Are not required to extend a base class.
• Also allow you to register middleware using a Closure.
• Are stored in the app/Http/Controllers directory.

Route::get('profile', 'UserController@show')->middleware('auth');

Class UserController extends Controller
{ /**
     * Instantiate a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */ public function __construct()
    { $this->middleware('auth'); $this->middleware('log')->only('index'); $this->middleware('subscribed')->except('store'); } }

• You may even restrict the middleware to only certain methods on the controller class.
• May be assigned to the controller's routes in your route files.
• You may assign middleware to a subset of controller actions.

Php artisan make:controller PhotoController --resource

Route::resource('photos', 'PhotoController');

Route::resources([ 'photos' => 'PhotoController', 'posts' => 'PostController' ]);

• You may register a resourceful route to the controller.
• You may register many resource controllers at once by passing an array to the resources method.
• Resource routing assigns the typical "CRUD" routes to a controller with a single line of code.

Php artisan route:cache

Php artisan route:clear

• To generate a route cache, just execute the route:cache Artisan command.
• You may use the route:clear command to clear the route cache.
• To use route caching, you must convert any Closure routes to controller classes.