CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phplaravel-5
Sven van den Boogaart
Sven van den Boogaart

Reputation: 12327

Laravel 5 how to find default methods

My question is pretty straight forward. How can I find default methods in laravel 5. For example if im trying to find the default postLogin method

  Auth\AuthController@postLogin

What I currently try : go to authcontroller -> look for postlogin cant find it. What is the best way to find default methods?

note: I know it is at 

 \Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers

By googling, but how should I find it based on code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (1)

lukasgeiter
lukasgeiter

Reputation: 152900

There are two options from where a method can come from when it's not in the actual class file.

1. Inheritance

I hope you are familiar with the basic concept of inheritance. Classes can extend other classes. So when you see something like this:

class Foo extends Bar
//        ^^^^^^^^^^^

Go one level up and check out the Bar class. Maybe you'll find the method there.

2. Traits

Traits are basically a collection of methods (and properties). A class can include them, like this is the case for the AuthController

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers, ThrottlesLogins;

AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers and ThrottlesLogins are both traits. If you take a look at AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers you can see that it just includes two other traits:

trait AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers
{
    use AuthenticatesUsers, RegistersUsers {

And there you have it. AuthenticatesUsers.

It helps a lot if you have the right tools for this. Lots IDEs or editors (sometimes a plugin is needed) allow you to click on class names to jump to the actual file.

Another way is to just search for the method name you are looking for in all files. To avoid including usages of the method search like this: function postLogin

Upvotes: 1

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