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rohitnaidu19
rohitnaidu19

Reputation: 693

laravel 4 restful controllers manually

In the laravel docs they have explained using resourceful controllers for using REST and using verbs in the methods of the controllers.

I have manually listed all my routes like this: Route::get('users/{id}/friends', 'UsersController@friends');

I am not using any resource just the method and the uri. How can I make this restful? Or is it restful already? Then how do I call the methods in a RESTful manner? I am confused

Upvotes: 0

Views: 215

Answers (2)

turntwo
turntwo

Reputation: 2520

REST is nothing more than a convention on how data should transfer in the web. If you want to be all nitpicky about it check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#Architectural_constraints

As for laravel, when you generate a controller via the CLI like so:

php artisan controller:make UsersController

Laravel automatically creates the boiler plate for the various actions you need to be handling (create, store, destroy, update and so on.) and then you can set-up your routes. Of course you wont need all for most controllers.

Here's a helpful set of links from Phillip Brown's blog:

http://culttt.com/2013/07/01/setting-up-your-first-laravel-4-controller/

http://culttt.com/2013/08/12/building-out-restful-controller-methods-in-laravel-4/

Upvotes: 1

erikpartridge
erikpartridge

Reputation: 11

If you want to make it RESTful, the simplest way in laravel is to do Route::resource('user', 'UserController), which automatically gives you the routes shown on the laravel web page.

However, if you are trying to look up the friends RESTfully you would want to make a /friends/ resource, and then register it as Route::resource('friends', 'FriendController'). For more on the relationships/friends side of things I would suggest reading this question from 2011, while not laravel specific, it does answer questions about REST.

Upvotes: 0

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