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Krimson
Krimson

Reputation: 7674

Call function in Controller using URL

Im comming from CodeIgniter.

There if you had a controller like this:

class Article extends CI_Controller{

    public function comments()
    {
        echo 'Look at this!';
    }
}

You could access the comments() function using the URL like this: example.com/Article/comments

How could I do something similar in Laravel?
The way I do it right now is specifiying a route like this:

Route::get('/Article/comments}', 'ArticleController@comments');

But I was hoping for a more dynamic way to do it as I don't want to keep on creating new routes for every function

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6689

Answers (2)

gpopoteur
gpopoteur

Reputation: 1519

I'll recommend that you stick with the laravel's way to create REST controllers, because that way you can have control over what HTTP Verb is being called with the controller method. The laravel way of doing this is just to add the HTTP Verb in front of the controller method, for your method comments if you want to specify a GET request in Laravel the name of the method would look like getComments.

For example, if you need to do a GET request for the article/comments URI, and then to create a new comment you want to use the same URI with another HTTP verb, lets say POST, you just need to do something like this:

class ArticleController extends BaseController{

    // GET: article/comments
    public function getComments()
    {
        echo 'Look at this!';
    }

    // POST: article/comments
    public function postComments()
    {
        // Do Something
    }
}

Further reading: http://laravel.com/docs/controllers#restful-controllers

Now for your specific answer, this is the Laravel way of doing what you requested:

class ArticleController extends BaseController{

    public function getComments()
    {
        echo 'Look at this!';
    }
}

and in the routes.php file you'll need to add the controller as follows:

Route::controller('articles', 'ArticleController');

Upvotes: 1

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

Reputation: 87789

The recommended way of dynamically calling controllers methods via URL, for Laravel users, is via RESTful Controllers:

<?php 

class ArticleController extends controller {

    public function getComment()
    {
        return 'This is only accesible via GET method';
    }

    public function postComment()
    {
        return 'This is only accesible via POST method';
    }

}

And create your route using telling Laravel this is a RESTful Controller:

Route::controller('articles', 'ArticlesController');

Then if you follow

http://laravel.dev/articles/comments

Using your browser, you should receive:

This is only accesible via GET method

The way you name your controllers methods (getComment, postComment, deleteComment...) tells Laravel wich HTTP method should be used to call those methods.

Check the docs: http://laravel.com/docs/controllers#restful-controllers

But you can also make it dynamic using PHP:

class ArticlesController extends Controller {

    public function comments()
    {
        return 'Look at this!';
    }

    public function execute($method)
    {
        return $this->{$method}();
    }

}

Use a controller like this one:

Route::get('Article/{method}', 'ArticleController@execute');

Then you just have to 

http://laravel.dev/Article/comments

Upvotes: 3

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