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neolaser
neolaser

Reputation: 6907

Laravel Nested resources and re-usable controllers

I am creating an API and I want to include both regular resources and nested resources

For example, I will say I have a Post resource and Comment resource. I have setup the appropriate routes and controllers like the following

Routes

Route::resource('posts', 'PostsControllers'); // /posts/{id}
Route::resource('comments', 'CommentsControllers'); /comments/{id}

But I also want to have comments as a nested resource of posts, like this

Nested resource route

Route::resource('posts.comments', 'PostCommentsControllers'); /posts/{id}/comments/{id}

Because I have already written my CommentsController, I would like to know of the best method to re-use the CommentsController for my PostsController

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1525

Answers (2)

Rob Gordijn
Rob Gordijn

Reputation: 6511

You can just extend your Blog/Comment/*Controller on a generic FooBarController which holds all the logic.

You will have to supply the model and other model-related data, I do this via the constructor, and my models holding data about the columns, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

Reputation: 87719

Using inheritance is the best way:

class BaseController extends Controller {

    public function index() {

    }   

    public function create() {

    }       

    public function store() {

    }       

    public function update() {

    }       

}

class PostsController extends BaseController {

}

class CommentsController extends BaseController {

}

Upvotes: 1

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