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I have been trying to make a simple gambling website where players face each other to a coin toss. Whoever picks heads or tails wins the Bitcoin. I have the following routes file;
'''<?php
/* |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Application Routes |-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Here is where you can register all of the routes for an application. | It's a breeze. Simply tell Laravel the URIs it should respond to | and give it the controller to call when that URI is requested. | */
Route::get('/', 'PagesController@index');
Route::resource('games', 'GamesController');
Route::Controllers([ 'auth' => 'Auth\AuthController', 'password' => 'Auth\Passwordcontroller' ]);'''
and this is my GamesController:
'''<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
class GamesController extends Controller { /** * create new instance of the game controller */ public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('auth');
}
/**
* show all games pending a partner
*/
public function index()
{
return 'The following users are ready to play';
}
/**
* Show a page to create new game
*/
public function create()
{
// create a new game
// load view to create game
return view('pages.create');
}
public function show() { // determine weather the outcome is heads or tails return App\Games::all();
} }'''
I am still fairly new to the laravel framework and any help I get is greatly appreciated. i've been at this all morning and can't find a solution.
You still need to import the base controller and Games model. This is standard php. At the top of your page add:
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; // use the base controller so that your custom controller can extend the functionality
use App\Games; / / you can then do Games::all();
// If you don't import these, you need to give the full namespace path such as
// return \App\Games::all();
Thanks for your reply. I am still trying to add faker data to my project. i have tried your code in my Games module as well as my routes file and I still encounter errors with the factory function. I am a bit confused. any help is greatly appreciated.
Just a side note. Anytime you see "Class 'App\Http\Controllers\App\SomeClass' not found" thrown from a controller it usually means you've referenced a class without "use". If you want to do it without "use" you need to add root to the classes namespace - \App\SomeClass.
@awarren thank you for the tip. Hopefully I can get my aspp working.
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